Today, HHS announced that it entered into the first breach settlement for less than 500 patients. HHS settled for $50,000 with Hospice of North Idaho for violations of the HIPAA Security Rule including a failure to maintain security policies and procedures and maintain secure mobile devices. In June 2010, an unencrypted Hospice of North Idaho laptop was stolen (...) [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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