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Get Permission Many of the major health data breaches added to the federal tally so far this year involve business associates, continuing a trend in recent years. The largest breach added so far in 2021 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website – which lists health data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals – is a vendor hacking incident reported on Jan. 29 by Florida Healthy Kids Corp., a provider of childrens health and dental health pla...

Get Permission Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center have just begun notifying 219,000 individuals of a hacking incident that was discovered last September. The lag between breach discovery and notification illustrates the difficulties organizations often face in incident response, some security experts say. Nebraska Medicine/UNMC says in a statement posted earlier this month that on Sept. 20, 2020, it identified unusual network activity that affected some of its IT s...

Get Permission In a ruling that could have a profound impact on HIPAA enforcement, a U.S. Court of Appeals has vacated a $4.3 million HIPAA civil monetary penalty levied by federal regulators against the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in the wake of three breaches involving unencrypted mobile devices. The court called the penalty “arbitrary, capricious and contrary to law.” In its ruling, the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Louisiana was critical of the Department of ...