In a busy medical office, privacy risks can happen in a flash. A patient form left on the front desk. A billing email sent to the wrong address. A casual ...

United States, 17th Sep 2024 - HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is a law that helps protect people's private health information. To protect patient information, ...

Basic HIPAA training and adhering to their hospital’s own privacy compliance guidelines may not be enough to ensure nurses are consistently compliant, suggests a Dec. 27 HIPAA Journal report. Ongoing ...

The Office of Civil Rights is offering HIPAA enforcement training sessions for States Attorneys General, aiming to aid them in investigating and seeking damages for HIPAA violations within their ...

When a study released this fall found that more than 50% of staff fail Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) assessments, two-thirds witness internal breaches, and more than 80% ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 360training has officially stepped into providing regulatory and compliance training for Healthcare after acquiring HIPAA Exams in April of 2022. It has ...

The federal agency responsible for enforcing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) – the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

Health Care Compliance Strategies Inc. (HCCS), Jericho, N.Y., is now offering three versions of an ongoing education program to “quickly and effectively train a large staff on complying with HIPAA ...

LAS VEGAS — Long-term care providers who have had their attention diverted by pandemic and other urgent matters need to start preparing for new HIPAA requirements as soon as possible, a pair of health ...

This summary highlights recent 2025 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enforcement actions by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office for Civil Rights ...

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