Just because you’re taking care of your obligations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), doesn’t mean that the vendors you work with are doing the same. So why should you care? Because if your vendors access your patients’ confidential information through your working relationship and have a breach of that data, you […]

Beginning in August, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) launched a new initiative to investigate smaller breach reports — meaning those that affect fewer than 500 individuals, the agency announced Aug. 18. This effort is based on a series of recent case settlements where OCR investigated smaller breaches […]