HIPAA audits are on the rise, and so are associated fines. In 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Civil Rights collected $23 million in fines, a 300% increase over 2014, ...

Healthcare entities and their business associates (healthcare companies) have spent the better part of two decades navigating the Health ...

Purdue University is a Hybrid Entity under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Purdue’s primary purpose is education; however, Purdue does have departments and ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) rules create a framework to protect the privacy and security of patient and health plan member health information. Purdue ...

Staff members need to know that practices are legally required to provide patients with their records and that organizations can be fined for not doing so. There are some important points to remember.

The important thing to recognize is that while CMS and the Office of Civil Rights have relaxed certain HIPAA procedures for the course of this national health emergency the rules have been modified ...

The assessment gives hospitals, health systems, and their procurement and security teams documented assurance that GCheck ...