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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

The guidelines ensure that patient information is safe from unauthorized access and sharing. Some of the data that it covers are: Electronic health records Billing details Health insurance information The Importance of Compliance There are severe consequences to not abiding by the HIPAA rules. What are the Most Common HIPAA Violations?

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First Multistate HIPAA Data Breach Lawsuit May Signal Increased State Interest in Data Security Enforcement

Data Matters

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. , 3:18-cv-00969 (N.D.

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France: the CNIL has released its annual dawn raid Program for 2023: four national priorities and one priority coming from the EDPB!

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

As a reminder, in 2022, the CNIL priority topics were (i) direct marketing (ii) monitoring telework and (iii) the use of cloud computing (see our previous post ). This decision comes from several claims filed with CNIL for unauthorized access by third parties to patient records held by health care institutions.

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U.S. Supreme Court to Weigh in on Extraterritorial Search Warrant Dispute

Data Matters

The decision now under review held that electronic communications that are stored exclusively on foreign servers cannot be reached by U.S. provider that can access the foreign-stored information, and deliver it to U.S. prosecutors under the SCA’s warrant provisions—not even where the warrant is served on a U.S.

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What is data loss and how does it work?

IT Governance

Reminding employees to exercise caution and to back up information wherever possible will mitigate this risk. Unlike desktop computers, laptops don’t have extra covers to protect them from water damage, which increases your risk of electronic components short circuiting. Computer viruses.

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Information Management in the Not-So-Distant Future of Health Care

AIIM

Today, if you have a computer, you have a doctor – videoconference doctor visits routinely complement in-person ones. mHealth apps are digital, smart, and data-intensive medical and fitness apps you can access via wearables or phone that generally improve convenience or monitor health and fitness. Electronic Health Record.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 210 – News of the week

Security Affairs

Attackers hacked support agent to access Microsoft Outlook email accounts. Romanian duo convicted of fraud Scheme infecting 400,000 computers. Locked Shields 2019 – Chapeau, France wins Cyber Defence Exercise. RCE flaw in Electronic Arts Origin client exposes gamers to hack. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy.