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HIPAA Violation Cases

The HIPAA Journal

HIPAA violation cases are compliance investigations that result from a data breach being notified to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) or a privacy complaint being submitted to OCR via the complaints portal. There are many different types of HIPAA violation cases.

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Populi

adult 18 and over in April 2021 to gather data for this annual report. In 2021, smartwatch adoption exceeded wearable activity fitness tracker market penetration, both around one-third of U.S. Household penetration of smartwatch ownership grew 12%, whereas activity tracker growth was fairly flat between 2020 and 2021.

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Healthcare Data Breach Statistics

The HIPAA Journal

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. 2021 was a bad year for data breaches with 45.9 In 2023, 79.7%

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The Ultimate HIPAA Compliance Checklist

Arkenea

Having a profound understanding of the HIPAA rules puts you one step ahead in the healthcare sector. HIPAA risk assessment ensures that ePHI is protected from threats and vulnerabilities such as fraud, data breaches, financial scams, identity thefts, etc. Nearly 45 million records were exposed or stolen in 2021.

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ICD-10 Code for Altered Mental Status, Unspecified 2024 – R41.82

Valant

Altered mental status, unspecified (R41.82) is a billable ICD-10 diagnostic code under HIPAA regulations from October 1, 2020, to September 30, 2021. ICD-10 Code for Altered Mental Status In this blog post, Valant discusses the ICD-10 code for Altered Mental Status.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

As digital health industry stakeholders will be convening at the 2021 annual HIMSS conference in Las Vegas and digitally, this report is well-timed to give us a level-set on just “where” U.S. The Pew team surveyed 1,213 adults ages 18 and over in June and July 2020, interviewing in English and Spanish.

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Supreme Court Declines Petition to Take on Data Breach Case Against South Carolina FQHC

The HIPAA Journal

Sandhills used a vendor (Netgain Technologies) for electronic storage of its scheduling, billing, and reporting systems. The vendor notified Sandhills on January 8, 2021, about a ransomware attack on November 15, 2020. The ransomware group used compromised credentials to access its systems and steal sensitive data.

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