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The University of Washington Medicine (“UWM”) has agreed to settle charges that it violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Security Rule for US$ 750,000, following a breach report first submitted by UWM on November 27, 2013. In addition to settlement, UWM has entered into a Resolution Agreement with the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) and has entered into and agreed to comply with a Corrective Action Plan (“CAP”).

On June 11, 2014, the US Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued two reports to Congress addressing Health Information Accountability and Portability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) compliance activities for calendar years 2011 and 2012.  The first report, relating…

On May 7th, two New York hospitals agreed to pay the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) $4.8 million dollars to settle claims that the hospitals had failed to secure patients’ electronic protected health information, in violation of the…

In a report released on  February 26th, the federal government stated that its Heath Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (“HCFAC”), established under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), recovered $4.3 billion during FY…

During a US House of Representatives Science Committee hearing last week, cybersecurity researchers described that the Affordable Care Act’s healthcare website, HealthCare.gov, is still susceptible to security issues, which could put patients’ sensitive health information at risk.

David Kennedy, president…