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The following information about responding to a cyber-breach was provided by United State Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Civil Rights. [Click here for the full page [...]

CardioNet calls itself the “leading supplier of Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry.” In other words, they sell wireless devices that help monitor heart conditions in patients. Now CardioNet is [...]

Colorado based Metro Community Provider Network (MCPN) may just be the victim of the most expensive phishing attack on record.  MCPN did not lose their money to the attackers but rather is [...]

As long predicted, even if health care practitioners argue that HIPAA privacy rules do not apply to their health care practices, courts enforcing state privacy laws will rely upon HIPAA privacy [...]

Once again the US Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) proves how serious it is about enforcing HIPAA privacy rules. In the largest HIPAA settlement since [...]

Parkview Health System, Inc. has agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule with the U.S. Department of Health [...]

We’ve been advising health care professionals for two years to treat health care privacy compliance seriously because federal enforcement of privacy regulations would expand. Well, [...]