Compliance & Regulatory Enforcement

North Carolina health center to pay $25,000 HIPAA fine

Marti Arvin, Executive Advisor at CynergisTek, offered commentary for this article, which discusses the recent HIPAA fine on Agape Health Services, a N.C.-based federally qualified health center.

CCPA Enforcement Begins, but Many Companies Are Unprepared

Marti Arvin discusses California’s newly enforced controversial digital privacy law – despite a call for a delay due to the pandemic and a lack of readiness by many companies.

Using COVID-19 Patient Data for Research: Sizing Up Risks

COVID-19 Crisis Triggers More HIPAA Policy Changes

In the latest move to relax certain HIPAA requirements during the COVID-19 crisis, federal regulators Thursday paved the way for business associates to share protected health information for public he

COVID-19: Tips for Secure Remote Worksites, Telehealth Video, and Messaging

David Holtzman discusses tips on how to keep secure remote worksites, telehealth video, and messaging during the COVID-19 Outbreak.

OCR Relaxes HIPAA Rules for COVID-19 Testing Sites

Mobile, walk-up and drive-through COVID-19 testing sites operated by hospitals, healthcare providers, and pharmacy chains are the latest beneficiaries of a series of targeted measures to relax...

Telehealth and Coronavirus: Compliance Considerations to Think About

Things are changing rapidly in the current regulatory environment and that is true for telehealth as well. On March 13, 2020 the President declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency....

Coalition Formed to Address COVID-19 Crisis

Alphabet's COVID-19 project underscores privacy concerns with big tech

A new COVID-19 project from one of Google’s sister companies is the latest big-tech foray into healthcare to spark privacy concerns.

Big HIPAA Fine for Solo Doctor Practice

OCR Allows Internet Apps for Telehealth During COVID-19 Emergency

In a pair of sweeping directives that will have far reaching implications for healthcare providers and their patients, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued guidance and FAQs through which the...

Some HIPAA Requirements Waived for Hospitals in Response to Coronavirus

The Secretary of HHS has declared a nationwide public health emergency. The declaration includes a suspension of some of the requirements of the HIPAA Privacy Rule for hospitals to help ease...

OCR Allows Use of Videoconferencing During Coronavirus Emergency

Healthcare providers may provide treatment services to patients using a variety of non-public facing telehealth technologies without complying with the requirements of the HIPAA Privacy and...

NRC Health recovering from ransomware attack

Lawsuit Claims HIV Data Exposed in Leak

Hacking of Accounting Firm Affects Medical Group

The CyberWire Daily Podcast - Episode 1027

CISA reports a ransomware infestation in a US natural gas compression facility. CISA thinks larger lessons to be learned. Caleb Barlow discusses Wigle and the impact your SSID name can have.