According to OCR, the Proposed Rule is intended to strengthen patient-provider confidentiality and facilitate full exchange of healthcare information between healthcare providers and patients. The Proposed Rule will be published in theFederal Registeron April 17, 2023, and comments will be...
Heat Injury and Illness Prevention Rule Proposed by OSHA July 6, 2024 The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has recommended the first federal workplace heat standard to safeguard millions of people in America from the health threats connected with exp...
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While there was an increase in enforcement actions for other HIPAA violations – 10 in 2023 vs 5 in 2022 and 3 in 2021 – OCR only imposed 11 penalties in 2023 to resolve HIPAA violations, compared to an average of 19 in the three previous years. BakerHostetler suggests the drop off in...
An upstate New York-based medical practice must spend $2.25 million to improve its data security practices over the next five years, plus pay state regulators up to a $1 million fine following an investigation into two ransomware attacks days apart in 2023 that affected nearly 224,500 people....
These modifications were outlined in a “Notice of Proposed Rule Making” on Jan. 21, 2021. But it was not a priority until very recently, when HHSannounced plansto finalize this rule in March 2023. Between January 2021 and now, HHS didn’t focus on the modifications, which had already ...
PublishedJan 06 2023 11:58 AM4,842 Views One month after one of the largest cyber-attacks and exposure of electronic Personal Health Information (ePHI) in 2022, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia released a paper detailing researched cybersecurity issues across the hea...
New York-based biotechnology firm Enzo Biochem will pay $4.5 million in state fines and must implement a list of security improvements, thanks to a 2023 ransomware attack that affected 2.4 million patients nationwide. Investigators highlighted the company's failure to fix known security risks. Articl...
Because the standards relating to the privacy of individually identifiable information were subject to a three year delay, the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Security Rule was the first to be issued in 1998. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Privacy Rule was issued in 1999; but ...