HIPAA’S Privacy Rule: Enforcement and Compliance in 2021
At its core, the Privacy Rule of HIPAA can be briefly summarized as the set of standards in rules employed by HIPAA to protect the health information of patients of covered entities (healthcare facilities, health clearinghouses, health plans, etc.). With this, the primary goal of the organization is to ensure that there is a proper […]
Business Associate Agreements, HIPAA’s Primary Enforcement Tool
It is widely known that HIPAA covers a vast majority of the private sector. HIPAA’s coverage ranges from healthcare providers to insurance companies, to healthcare clearinghouses as well as third parties that these entities interact with. The list is simply vast and the fact that HIPAA is primarily concerned with protecting non-electronic and electronic Protected […]
Fake HIPAA Violation Claims Lands Man in Jail for 6 Months
A man from Georgia falsely accused a former acquaintance of breaking HIPAA rules by violating patient privacy. He was later sentenced to serve 6 months in jail and pay a fine of $1,200 for fabricating evidence.
The Perks of Regulatory Compliance
Regulatory compliance feels like a chore to a lot of businesses. Especially with sanctions and penalties attached to it, the traditional response that these get is a sigh and a shrug before proceeding to comply with the requirements. In a way, regulations and their accompanying sanctions have become mere deterrences such that their benefits and […]
The Face of HIPAA in 2021
The most talked about issue in 2020 has become the public health crisis that is COVID-19. Along with this came several complications that affected the healthcare industry as a whole. From the practice of healthcare to the manufacturing of healthcare-related products, to the security of healthcare information. News or shortages and the overloading of hospitals […]
All the 2021 Updates for COVID-19 Vaccines
The development of a vaccine typically spans from 10 to 15 years but the urgency of COVID-19 has sped up the process to have multiple vaccine candidates viable in just a year. Of those candidates, Pfizer and Moderna’s candidates have been granted emergency authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Aside from those two, […]