This week in HIPAA news we are shining a light on two rules that display the spectrum of ‘bending’ from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The first, showing flexibility, announced that penalties with regard to HIPAA, as it pertains to the COVID-19 vaccination, [...]

The office for Civil Rights gathered information at the end of 2020 that is important for any covered entity or business associate that operates under HIPAA guidelines.  Summarized in the U.S. Health and Human Service (HHS) HIPAA Audits Industry Report, this data should be regarded as a useful tool for any business that [...]

In healthcare, we want to assume that we are collectively working to advance medicine and whatever the latest developments are, well we want “in”. What if that development is the COVID-19 vaccine and as it turns out, someone on your team isn’t interested? According to a survey done by the Pew Research [...]

It’s often said that change equals growth. But while that may be true, it doesn’t take into account the fact that changing how we do something – and adapting to new technologies and systems – can be hard. If you own or run a company, where a change in process [...]

Can a journalist reveal an individual’s COVID-19 diagnosis or are they in violation of HIPAA laws by doing so? Healthcare and the diagnosis of a person’s well-being are private information in general, but when it comes to reporting, and doing so in a pandemic, suddenly ‘who has what and where [...]