On the heels of its $1.5 million settlement with a large payor, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced on April 17, 2012, that it settled with a small physician practice for HIPAA safeguard violations. Phoenix Cardiac Surgery, P.C., a practice owned by (...) [Read More]
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Twenty-first century health care will revolve around healthcare information technology (HIT) with increasing demand to decrease cost and increase high quality outcomes. Ober|Kaler’s Healthcare Information Technology and Privacy Group is significantly involved in the operational, contractual and regulatory aspects of the privacy and security of medical information and the use of health care information technology in the industry. We represent licensed health care providers and facilities and those who do business with them as they move into a new electronic era with unique privacy and security concerns under HIPAA and its implementing regulations and extensive changes of the HITECH Act.
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