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HITECH Act Assures Meaningful Use & Care Coordination…For Some
Brandon Danz, M.P.A. The passage of the ARRA HITECH Act in 2009 fostered significant advancements in patient engagement and care coordination by incentivizing primarily physical health providers and...
View ArticleOCR Audits to Begin in 2016
Beginning in 2016, the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will conduct another round of audits to gauge compliance with privacy provisions in the...
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Hospital’s Turkey Dinner Is $850,000 Fine for Failure to Secure Mobile...
Just before Thanksgiving, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (“Lahey”), a non-profit teaching hospital located in Burlington, Massachusetts, agreed to pay $850,000 for a breach of unsecured electronic...
View ArticleHigh Cost of HIPAA Violations Demonstrated in $3.5 Million Settlement
Triple-S Management Corporation (“Triple-S”), on behalf of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Triple-S Salud, Inc., Triple-C, Inc., and Triple-S Advantage, Inc., has agreed to pay $3.5 million as part of a...
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Organizations Want to Cry After WannaCry Ransomware Attacks
Earlier this month a massive ransomware attack spread throughout 150 countries, infecting 300,000 computers and crippling businesses across the globe. The ransomware, called “Wannacry,” infiltrated a...
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