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 ...

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 ...

Business associates want to know. Covered entities want to know. What do I do in order to comply with the new HIPAA laws in the Health Information for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act?

Since it was first enacted, the healthcare industry has been under constant pressure to keep personal healthcare information (PHI) secure and to remain compliant with the evolving rules and ...

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 ...

If a primary business associate knows of a subcontractor business associate’s pattern of activity or practice constituting a material breach of a business associate agreement, the primary business ...

ALPHARETTA, Ga., Oct. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Dispersive Technologies (www.dispersivetechnologies.com), whose software and cloud-based Dispersive Virtualized Networks make the Internet fast, secure, ...