A significant number of HIPAA complaints are not actual violations under the law, according to HHS’ Office of Civil Rights’ latest Annual Report to Congress on ...

Is your email a HIPAA Compliant? Or does it need to be a HIPAA complaint for your private practice? You may think the answer is obvious and ofcourse, as a healthcare professional you need to be aware ...

A report released on Friday found that HIPAA complaints and breaches spiked between 2017 and 2021, with the agency in charge of handling the notices saying it lacks sufficient resources to properly ...

HIPAA complaints and breaches increased from 2017 to 2021, but the agency in charge of auditing compliance said it doesn’t have the resources to handle the uptick. The HHS Office for Civil Rights, or ...

Since 2008, there have been just 21 HHS Office for Civil Rights resolution agreements that included financial payments, plus one case that involved a civil monetary penalty, which is considered more ...

In response to the letter written by John Canning, "": WebMD operates the country's largest electronic transactions clearinghouse in the United States, annually processing more than 2.3 billion ...

On May 19, 2016, the ACLU filed a complaint pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) on behalf of four ...

The deadline for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's new notification standards has come and gone, but employers' efforts to toe the line with the latest privacy ...