A recent ruling by a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) in the case of Director of the Office for Civil Rights v. Lincare, Inc., …
Earlier this month health insurer Anthem, Inc. disclosed a data breach involving an estimated 80 million records containing protected health information (PHI). In 2013, Anthem (then known as Wellpoint) was …
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule that requires companies to comply with a variety of new HIPAA provisions by Sept. 23, 2013. As a …
Remember how when you were a kid, and you went to spend the night at a friend’s house, you were faced with all kinds of new and different ‘rules of …
MO HealthNet is in the process of notifying 1,357 individuals that some of their personal information was mailed to an incorrect address by one of its contractors, Infocrossing, Inc. The …
ClearData Networks has raised $7 million from Norwest Venture Partners and Excel Venture Management in Series B funding for its cloud service that caters to the health care market. The …
According to the HIPAA privacy regulations, a “covered entity” (as defined by HIPAA) is required to notify an individual and the Secretary of DHHS “following the discovery of a breach …
As Microsoft continues to push for more companies to use its cloud services such as Office 365, it sometimes has to make some changes in order for those services to be …
