Scrubs

AUGUST 22, 2023

The number of healthcare data breaches keeps going up year after year. In 2018, the healthcare sector saw 15 million patient records compromised across 503 breaches, which was three times the amount seen in 2017. These data breaches have affected millions of patients, putting their sensitive healthcare information at risk.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

MAY 17, 2024

An update to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule is now underway with new cybersecurity requirements. The latest data show a 93% increase in large breaches (from 369 to 712) reported from 2018 to 2022. HIPAA privacy requirements may be violated through data collection and its usage. “As

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

The HIPAA Journal has compiled healthcare data breach statistics from October 2009, when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) started publishing summaries of healthcare data breaches on its website. PA Business Associate 2,675,934 Hacking/IT Incident 45 2018 AccuDoc Solutions, Inc.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. In 2018, consumers’ tracking of at least one health metric crossed over from an analog method to digital tracking, illustrated in the line chart.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

This marks the first update to the HIPAA Security Rule since 2013. From 2018-2023, OCR observed a 102% increase in breaches affecting 500 or more individuals, with 167 million affected in 2023 alone. These changes aim to address the steadily increasing risk of cyberattacks on critical healthcare infrastructure. population. [1]

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

billion investment makes ONEM the third largest acquisition in Amazon’s portfolio, following Whole Foods at $13.7 With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S. “It’s easier for them to continue to build up a benefit stack until at some point they said, ‘Hey, you’re already paying me $1,000 a year.

Medication

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018. Tech companies? In the U.S.,

HIPAA

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

MAY 17, 2024

An update to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule is now underway with new cybersecurity requirements. The latest data show a 93% increase in large breaches (from 369 to 712) reported from 2018 to 2022. HIPAA privacy requirements may be violated through data collection and its usage. “As

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Health Prime

JANUARY 24, 2024

The easy follow-up of patients using telemonitoring solutions and the augmented access to internet services will continue increasing telemedicine delivery. Learn more about this in our blog Optimize your telemedicine appointments with these best practices. The future of telemedicine will look brighter than ever in 2024.

Billing

The HIPAA Journal

JULY 15, 2025

This article answers the following: What is the HHS Office of Inspector General? In some cases, exclusions reported to HHS OIG from these sources can take up to two years to appear on the HHS OIG Exclusions List. Assessed damages of up to three times the amount claimed for each item or service (no limit).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 19, 2019

HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was legislated in 1996, isn’t sufficiently robust to deal with the nature of this health information 23 years after that law was first implemented. In contrast, average escalations would be 2, days to send 8, and follow-up calls 3. Why is this so important?

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

For more color, read Jane’s April 2008 report, “The Wisdom of Patients,” where she wrote about PLM in its start-up phase (see section on page 20 entitled “ An Ongoing, Live Outcomes Study ”). data remain with a separate entity with a Board made up of Americans? A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S. But the U.S.

Unit Organization and Environment

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

These figures are commonly used as placeholders to meet the reporting requirements of the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule. Geographical Distribution of February 2025 Healthcare Data Breaches Large healthcare data breaches were reported by HIPAA-regulated entities in 25 U.S. Warby Parker Inc., Warby Parker Inc.,

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It has been several years since new HIPAA regulations have been signed into law, but HIPAA changes in 2022 are expected. The last update to the HIPAA Rules was the HIPAA Omnibus Rule in 2013, which introduced new requirements mandated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.

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The HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed into law in 1996 and while there have been some significant HIPAA updates over the last two decades, the last set of major HIPAA updates occurred in 2013 with the introduction of the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule. Major HIPAA Updates in the Past 20 Years.

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