Increasing State HIPAA Enforcement: Highlights from 2018
There have been quite a number of state HIPAA enforcement cases this year, and one expert points out a trend toward increasing state enforcement of HIPAA. An article in Data Breach Today discusses a...
View ArticleA Major Move to Weaken HIPAA
Quietly, at the end of April, HIPAA was significantly weakened. HHS published what sounds like an innocuous notification in the Federal Register: Notification of Enforcement Discretion Regarding...
View ArticleThe Failure of HIPAA’s Right of Access
One of the biggest sore spots in HIPAA compliance has been providing individuals with their right to access their medical records. In addition to the countless anecdotal accounts about the painful...
View ArticleFirst OCR Enforcement of HIPAA’s Right of Access
Days after my recent blog post on the HIPAA Right of Access, the OCR released details of their first enforcement action for violation of the Right of Access. The complaint, received in August 2018,...
View ArticleCartoon: De-Identifying PHI under HIPAA
This cartoon is about de-identifying PHI under HIPAA. De-identifying personal data is quite complicated. Researchers have been able to re-identify sets of personal data with just names, birth dates,...
View ArticleWhat Are the Requirements for HIPAA Training?
HIPAA training is an specific requirement of HIPAA. HIPAA requires that covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs) provide HIPAA training to members of their workforce who handle protected...
View ArticleVideo – Covid, Privacy, and Education with Daniel Solove and Tracy Mitrano
In this video, Daniel Solove and Tracy Mitrano (former IT Policy at Cornell and now Democratic candidate for US Senate in New York’s 23rd district) discuss Covid, privacy, education, work-from-home,...
View ArticleThe M.D. Anderson Case and the Future of HIPAA Enforcement
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit just issued a blistering attack on HIPAA enforcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In University of Texas M.D. Anderson...
View ArticleWebinar – HIPAA and Health Privacy: New Developments
If you couldn’t make it to my recent webinar on HIPAA and health privacy developments in 2023, you can watch the replay here. I had a great discussion with Deborah Gersh, Adam Greene, and Kate Black....
View ArticleWebinar The New Breed of State Health Privacy Laws Blog
If you couldn’t make it to my recent webinar on Washington’s My Health My Data Act (MHMDA) and the new state health privacy laws, you can watch the replay here. I had a great discussion with Mike...
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