Last week, members of the Senate HELP Committee issued a draft of upcoming bipartisan legislation on health information technology (health IT), including changes to the HITECH Act. The legislation calls for a framework for governance of health information exchange and supplements patient access requirements under HITECH. Other focus areas include information blocking, interoperability, and transparency
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OCR Announces Third HIPAA Settlement in Three Weeks
By Stephanie Willis on
Posted in Cybersecurity / Data Security, Data Breach
On Monday, the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) released its third resolution and settlement agreement in as many weeks. The $750,000 settlement with the University of Washington Medicine (“UWM”) is yet another citing the alleged failure to conduct an enterprise-wide risk analysis as required by the HIPAA Security Rule. As part of the settlement,…