Mar 18, 2020 | Health Care, HIPAA
Trump Administration Loosens Telehealth and HIPAA Rules to Help Combat COVID-19 Crisis Earlier today, March 17, 2020, the Trump administration announced that, due to the COVID-19 crisis, Medicare providers may now use phone and video conference, including FaceTime and...
Nov 26, 2019 | Cyber Law, HIPAA
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) imposed civil monetary penalties (CMP) of $3 million and $1.6 million for HIPAA violations in the first half of November. $3 million CMP: Failure to Encrypt Devices In 2010, the University of...
Oct 23, 2019 | Cyber Law, HIPAA
Roger Severino, Director of the U.S. Health & Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), recently provided an update on OCR’s HIPAA enforcement priorities at a conference in Washington, D.C. During his talk, Director Severino noted that patient access to...
