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OCR just announced its most recent HIPAA settlement, this time with an EMR vendor Medical Informatics Engineering, acting as a business associate.
Yesterday, North Carolina state Representatives Jason Saine (R), Brenden H. Jones (R), Robert T. Reives II (D), and Pricey Harrison (D) introduced…
Privacy concerns and data security breaches pervade the news. The deluge of social media scandals, massive data breaches, constant phishing schemes designed…
Unlike attorneys general in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and California, North Carolina’s Attorney General has not historically been an active privacy and data…
When one thinks of the top data-security cops on the beat, the SEC doesn’t typically come to mind. Overshadowed by the Federal…
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) put on their 11th annual HIPAA conference…
Low-Hanging Fruit for Regulators: Failure to Conduct Comprehensive Risk Analysis Frequently Featured in HIPAA Enforcement The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act…
By Lynn C. Percival Earlier today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a long-awaited opinion addressing a…
According to the ominous countdown ticker on the European Commission (EC) website, there are only 121 days until the…
Equifax’s recent announcement of a massive data breach affecting approximately 143 million consumers has many consumers wondering how…