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Saturday, February 13, 2021 As COVID-19 vaccines become available to greater swaths of the population, many employers are considering ways to incentivize employees to get vaccinated. Incentives can take many forms, including extra pay, paid time off, gift cards, or tangible gifts. Employers that offer incentives to employees to get vaccinated may be creating group health plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). In addition, incentivized vaccination programs may need to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)...

After years of attacking networks and custom software, enterprising hackers found an easier attack vector and switched to attacking the application development

The Complaint HHS OCR says that in June 2019, it received a complaint alleging that Sharp failed to take timely action in response to a patient's records access request directing that an electronic copy of protected health information in an electronic health record be sent to a third party. OCR says it provided Sharp with technical assistance on the HIPAA right of access requirements. But in August 2019, OCR received a second complaint alleging that Sharp still had not responded to the patient's records access request. OCR initiated an investigation, and Sharp eventually provided access to ...

Security has changed as enterprises continue to adopt and embrace cloud and it’s no longer acceptable for security teams to be purely reactive. DivvyCloud

HHS has issued its 15th HIPAA settlement involving a patient's right to access their medical records. Will enforcement of HIPAA's records access provision be a