If you are a skilled nursing provider, the Office for Civil Rights may have you in its crosshairs. OCR is currently conducting HIPAA audits that target all types of healthcare organizations. In fact, ...

Basic HIPAA training and adhering to their hospital's own privacy compliance guidelines may not be enough to ensure nurses are consistently compliant, suggests a Dec. 27 HIPAA Journal report. Ongoing ...

A group of five Delaware nursing homes has paid $182,000 over its efforts to publicize patients’ success stories, federal officials announced Tuesday. The Department of Health and Human Services ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 360training has officially stepped into providing regulatory and compliance training for Healthcare after acquiring HIPAA Exams in April of 2022. It has ...

The HHS announced on Monday that L.A. Care, the nation’s largest publicly operated health plan, will pay $1.3 million to settle allegations it violated federal breach rules following investigations ...

Wayne Memorial Hospital in Honesdale, Pa., has fired a nurse's aide for accessing patient records without proper authorization, according to a report from The Times-Tribune. The hospital informed 390 ...

How do people use, misuse or abuse HIPAA, the federal regulations protecting patients’ confidential health information? Let us count the ways: • Last month, in a continuing care retirement community ...

Washington — For the American people and members of the press hoping to glean a comprehensive rundown of President Trump's condition following his diagnosis with COVID-19, a five-letter acronym has ...