by Wes Morris | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog
By: Wes Morris, Managing Principal Consultant and Dawn Morgenstern, Senior Principal Consultant This past Thursday, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a statement of intent to publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to modify the HIPAA Privacy...
by Steve Cagle | Nov 30, 2020 | Blog
I read with immense interest the letter[1] that Senator Mark Warner sent to Alan Miller following the ransomware attack on Universal Health Services earlier this fall. As we have seen, cyberattacks are compromising the confidentiality of patient data. They are also...
by Bob Chaput | Nov 20, 2020 | Blog
Healthcare organizations are experiencing a renewed onslaught of cyber attacks since the advent of the coronavirus pandemic. Hospitals and health systems were already targets of cyber attacks before the pandemic emerged. Now, the rapid shift to remote work and...
by Bob Chaput | Oct 30, 2020 | Blog
September was a challenging month for healthcare cybersecurity professionals. According to the HIPAA Journal, there were 95 reported healthcare data breaches with 500 or more records breached that month. That’s nearing twice the highest single-monthly report in the...
by Jon Moore | Oct 5, 2020 | Blog
Delivering on the Promise of Digitizing Healthcare Information On May 1, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published two Final Rules in the Federal Register targeted at improving interoperability[i] and patient access to health information[ii]....
