by Romaisa Asim | Jan 16, 2021 | Amazon Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, HIPAA, Uncategorized
Amazon, the $1.6 trillion shipping giant, is launching a new service to provide essential medical services through Amazon Healthcare as a national telehealth business. Anyone watching Amazon over the last few years will be well acquainted with its accelerating moves...
by Romaisa Asim | Jan 14, 2021 | HIPAA
HHS enforcement efforts in 2020 were focused on ensuring that healthcare organizations comply with the HIPAA right of access initiative, made evident by the eleven HIPPA right of access fines issued in 2020. To guide on complying with it, HIPAA fines 2020 pertaining...
by Rabab Asim | Dec 21, 2020 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA, HIPAA Compliant Telemedicine, Telemedicine
Before COVID, there weren’t many healthcare providers that offered telemedicine services. But as the need arose, many practices quickly adopted telemedicine as their new norm, and the HHS shifted to a policy of “discretionary enforcement” actions against...
by Erick R | Dec 7, 2020 | HIPAA, HIPAA Violation, Protected Health Information
The US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has continued to press its enforcement efforts in support of patient’s right to access to records, in the midst of the COVID pandemic-related relaxation of enforcement for some...
by Erick R | Dec 7, 2020 | HIPAA
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a settlement with ZOOM to resolve allegations that the company engaged in misleading security practices. The use of the videoconferencing platform rocketed during the early days of the pandemic, particularly in...
by Marlene Maheu, Ph. D | Oct 23, 2020 | HIPAA, HIPAA Violation
a ssworth of On September 15, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it had settled with five healthcare organizations that violated the HIPAA Right of Access provision. Each organization was subject to...
