The tips in Part I of this series addressed how a long-term care organization should start its data incident preparedness by ...

I AM CONNECTING WITH THE PATIENT MORE. KAISER PERMANENT SAYS... PRIVACY IS A TOP PRIORITY... AND THAT THEY FOLLOW HIPAA RE Kaiser Permanente has introduced a new artificial intelligence tool to save ...

AI scribes are quickly becoming the digital sidekick of modern health care. They promise to reduce clinician burnout, ...

ERISA, you’ll need a lawyer for that.” Our practice group’s tagline is meant to be a shorthand for the alphabet soup of laws that apply to ...

What's New? On May 28, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced an $800,000 settlement with ...

The bottom line is that while recognizing there is an issue is vital, too many healthcare organizations are counting on ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has reached a settlement with Comstar, LLC, ...

The civil monetary penalty is OCR’s 53rd HIPAA Right of Access enforcement action to advance patient access to medical records. HIPAA requires that individuals or their personal representatives ...