Under legislation passed by Congress this weekend that awaits President Donald Trump’s signature, HIPAA enforcers, when considering financial penalties for compliance violations, would need to ...

The HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules 1 apply to healthcare providers who engage in certain electronic transactions, healthcare clearinghouses ...

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Federal regulators have slapped the Rhode Island-based health system Lifespan with a $1 million settlement tied to a 2017 data breach involving the theft of an unencrypted laptop that potentially ...

Providence Medical Institute, a Southern California-based physician services division of the seven-state Providence health system, will pay a $240,000 civil monetary penalty to settle potential HIPAA ...

Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic of North Carolina has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle charges that it might have violated the HIPAA Privacy Rule by disclosing protected ...

A healthcare provider delivering pain management services in Florida and other states faces a $1.19 million civil monetary penalty from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office ...

A hospital in Dallas was fined $3.2 million after it was determined that officials in the facility knowingly violated a HIPAA health data security rule for three years. The Health and Human Services’ ...

This was followed by emails, Intranet and notice boards. Of survey respondents, 62 percent reported they think more money from HIPAA fines should be reinvested in improving patient data security. More ...

LOS ANGELES — Following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the University of California at Los Angeles Health System (UCLAHS) has ...