Signing a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) is standard practice for most healthcare providers and businesses, but these parties sometimes do not read the agreement or even execute it as stated. BAAs ...

Questions often arise as to what terms need to be and should be included in a business associate agreement. The distinction between “need” and “should” is very important. The regulations implementing ...

Whenever the topic of health and medical data comes up, there is often a prevailing assumption that this information is subject to the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ...

In August, Advocate Health Care Network agreed to pay a $5.55 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR), for multiple HIPAA violations. In ...

We have recently assisted several healthcare provider clients that have discovered that their business associates had allowed protected health information of the provider’s patients to be improperly ...

WHEREAS, Business Associate now and in the future may have relationships with Covered Entity in which Business Associate creates, receives, maintains or transmits Protected Health Information (as ...

HIPAA-covered entities cannot disclose protected health information without authorization, and the lack of a business associate agreement left this information without safeguards, rendering it ...

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the most mature and comprehensive health data protection law in the US. (It passed in 1996.) But does this patient data protection ...

If your business or job role involves handling patient information, you likely have to meet or surpass HIPAA requirements. We’ll walk you through the process of ensuring you’re using HIPAA compliant ...