In August, Advocate Health Care Network agreed to pay a $5.55 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR), for multiple HIPAA violations. In ...

WHEREAS, Business Associate now and in the future may have relationships with Covered Entity in which Business Associate creates, receives, maintains or transmits Protected Health Information (as ...

The final rule expanded the definition of business associate to include all subcontractors of business associates that create, receive, maintain or transmit protected health information (PHI) on ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final Omnibus Rule this year creating higher standards concerning protected health information (PHI) under the Health Insurance ...

Cloud service providers become business associates (BAs) subject to HIPAA whenever a covered entity or its BA handles electronic protected health information (ePHI), according to new guidance from the ...

It is clear that the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act era creates substantial new legal obligations for entities that operate as “business associates” under ...

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “Heart Gadgets Test Privacy Law Limits,” raised three items in relation to HIPAA that all entities handling patient ...

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