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2017 is Raising the Bar for Annual HIPAA Breaches

HIPAA News

This week MSPmentor published an article online regarding the current pace of HIPAA breaches potentially doubling that of 2016. According to the article, the 66 percent increase – thus far – is driven by a sharp rise in the number of incidents designated as “Hacking/IT Incident,” which were up 82 percent, to 104 in 2017. … [Read more…]

Ensuring Availability of HIPAA During Natural Disasters

This week Mondaq published an article online regarding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reminded health care providers of the importance of ensuring the availability and security of health information during and after natural disasters. According to the article, OCR recently published a bulletin during Hurricane Harvey discussing how the HIPAA … [Read more…]