Urologicals News:
OhioHealth’s Grant Medical Center has been sending faxes with patient information to the wrong person for months in an apparent HIPAA violation, reported ABC6 in Columbus, Ohio, on June 18. The information... read more...
Healthcare leaders are concerned about patient privacy issues when it comes to undertaking a technology adoption initiative, according to a survey of 347 US health physicians and executives by Ernst... read more...
By a vote of 357-57, the US House passed the Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act (HR 6082) on June 20, which would align privacy protections for substance use disorder... read more...
A healthcare data breach at Med Associates, a Latham, NY-based health billing company, may have exposed PHI on more than 270,000 people, reported the Times Union newspaper. In an announcement... read more...
The federal government has issued the final rule for the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, known as the Common Rule, that allows, among other things, more secondary... read more...
Pennsylvania-based Washington Health System (WHS) has suspended around a dozen employees for alleged HIPAA violations involving inappropriately accessing patient records in a high-profile case, the Observer-Reporter newspaper reported June 18.... read more...