by HIPAAgps | Jun 28, 2018 | HIPAA News
Reports of HIPAA fines from the OCR are all over the news, but the reason we never hear about lawsuits from patients is because even if they do file a suit, a judge will dismiss the case. On June 15, a U.S. district court judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed the case...
by HIPAAgps | Jun 21, 2018 | HIPAA News
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MD Anderson) will have to pay more than $4.3 million in HIPAA fines because of three separate data breaches that occurred in 2012 and 2013. The recent press release from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) stated that a...
by HIPAAgps | Jun 14, 2018 | HIPAA News
A growing trend in health care is specialization of treatments, which causes the decentralization of health care. No longer does one medical facility do checkups, critical care, lab work, and x-rays: everything is outsourced from one health care provider to the next....
by HIPAAgps | Jun 7, 2018 | HIPAA News
Cyber insurance claims are on the rise and ransomware attacks top the charts according to a recent report from the American International Group (AIG). The 2017 Cyber Insurance Claim Statistics published by AIG, a global insurance organization, found that ransomware...
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