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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. There have been many versions of so-called “patient’s bills of rights” over the years.

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Michigan House Passes Bill Requiring Medical Records to be Stored Domestically

The HIPAA Journal

The Michigan House of Representatives has passed a bill ( HB 4242 ) that seeks to protect the sensitive health data of state residents from foreign entities of concern by requiring electronic medical records to be stored in the United States or Canada. The bill was introduced by Rep. The bills will now be considered by the Senate.

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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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Cyberattack Forces North Carolina Radiology Practice to Close for More Than a Month

The HIPAA Journal

The compromised email account was reviewed and found to contain patients full names, addresses, dates of birth, medical and treatment information, dates of service, provider and facility names, procedure codes, billing and claims information, patient account identifiers, and payor information.

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Azura Vascular Care Agrees to $3.15 Million Data Breach Settlement

The HIPAA Journal

On October 9, 2023, Azura Vascular Care identified suspicious network activity, with the forensic investigation confirming that hackers had access to its network between September 27, 2023, and October 9, 2023, during which time they potentially stole the protected health information of patients.

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March 2024 Healthcare Data Breach Report

The HIPAA Journal

March was a particularly bad month for healthcare data breaches with 93 branches of 500 or more records reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), a 50% increase from February and a 41% year-over-year increase from March 2023.

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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. On January 22, 2023, the breach portal listed 857 data breaches as still; under investigation.