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Congress Holds Hearing on HHS Cybersecurity Role.
The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the United States Congress Committee on Energy and Commerce recently held a hearing…
Congressional Hearing on HHS Cybersecurity
PHI Security Emphasized Congressman Tim Murphy chaired a recent hearing on the HHS cybersecurity role. The hearing included a review…
Healthcare Now Ranks Second In Cyberattacks: HIPAA Breach Update
Increasing State and Federal Rules and Oversight Developing Breach Response Plans The problem of breaches of protected health information (PHI)…
Top Compliance Issues Unchanged For 2022
The 2021 Compliance Benchmark Survey of Compliance Offices conducted by Strategic Management Services and SAI Global found that the top…
OIG Reports That $4 Billion Dollars Could Be Saved Based Upon Its Findings and Recommendations
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued the Fall 2021 Semiannual Report to Congress…
Four Class Action Suits Filed Against Scripps Health
Key Points: Health and personal information on nearly 150,000 patients stolen in ransomware attack. Incident should serve as another warning…
One Billion CVS Records Accidentally Posted Online
Earlier this year, an independent cybersecurity researcher discovered that a CVS Health database containing more than 1 billion data points was posted…
Phishing Attacks Remain A Serious Compliance Threat
Key Points: Data breaches are on the rise. Tips for compliance officers to counter information security threats are included below.…
New FBI Internet Crime Report
Key Points: The report includes COVID-19 scam and state-level statistics. Tips for preventing attacks are included below. The Internet Crime…
OIG Releases Final Rule on New and Amended Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors and CMP Exception
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently published a final rule to modify…
CMS Finalizes Changes to the Stark Law Regulations
Guest author Alexis Rose, JD provides insight and analysis on recently updated government regulations. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…
2020 Top Three Compliance Officer Priorities
The following are results from the report for the 2020 SAI Global Healthcare Compliance Benchmark Survey (Survey) developed with, and…