Recent bipartisan legislation introduced into the US House of Representatives by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis) and Representative Ron Kind (D-Wis) entitled “Expanding the Availability of Medicare Data Act” (H.R. 4418) would expand the availability of Medicare claims
Two HIPAA settlement agreements illustrate need for encryption
On April 22, 2014, the US Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced that it had reached settlement agreements with two organizations alleged to have violated the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act of
Privacy – Mandatory breach notification coming to Australia
With many Australian organisations still coming to grips with recent changes to their privacy laws, legislation to mandate notification of privacy breaches is back on the agenda. Amongst other aspects, the recent changes introduced significant fines and increased the scope