by HIPAAgps | Jul 12, 2018 | HIPAA News
As you may recall from a previous HIPAAgps post, ransomware attacks can devastate a health care company’s reputation and finances. You may not think that this applies to you because your company has a seemingly impenetrable firewall, but these computer bugs infiltrate...
by HIPAAgps | Jul 5, 2018 | HIPAA News
The most recent installment of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) cybersecurity newsletter focused on software vulnerabilities and patching. The newsletter began with a little background on what software is and the fact that much of the software we use contains...
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....
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