The HIPAA Journal

JULY 5, 2024

Mobile Medical Response Warns Patients About PHI Breach Mobile Medical Response, a Michigan-based provider of medical transportation and ambulance services, has announced that there has been an impermissible disclosure of patient information at one of its business associates.

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Health Prime

MAY 23, 2024

Read more about this in our blog How to make sure your Business Associates are HIPAA Compliant. It is imperative to assess the coding partner’s technology infrastructure and compatibility with your practice management or Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

Here’s what we-know-we know about health care, privacy, and security: briefly, • HIPAA covers patients’ PHI that is held by covered entities and shared with contracted business associates. Amon the five industries they tracked, healthcare accounted for 1 in 4 total breaches in 2017, exposing over five million patient records.

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Arkenea

AUGUST 15, 2024

Here’s what falls under HIPAA: HIPAA Privacy Rule: The HIPAA Privacy Rule establishes guidelines for safeguarding any personally identifiable health information that Covered Entities (CE) or Business Associates (BA) handle.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 29, 2024

The AHA explained in the letter that Change Healthcare is a covered entity and, as such, has a duty to notify OCR and the affected individuals about any data breach, even in cases where Change Healthcare acts as a business associate. pharmacies and serves 129 million patients.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 7, 2025

In this case, an investigation was initiated by OCR in response to a complaint from the personal representative of a patient in January 2021 who had not been provided with a complete set of the patients records. The initial request for those records was faxed to OHSU on April 24, 2019. Last month, OCR imposed a $1.5

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Individuals suffering from substance abuse disorder (SUD) must also be able to get the treatment they need during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has meant changes needed to be made to 42 CFR Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records (Part 2) regulations. A definition has been added for electronic health records.

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