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HITECH breach notification rules are a reality

  • Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 28 2009

The much anticipated "breach notification" rule was recently published by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Civil Rights (OCR

Be prepared by effective date (92309) for HIPAA breach notification regulations: self-assessmentcompliance guide can help ensure your and your business associates' compliance

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

The Final Interim Regulations for HIPAA Breach Notification will be effective September 23, 2009 (30 days from the August 24, 2009 date of publication in the Federal Register

The HHS Rule: breach notification for unsecured protected health information

  • Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

The new HHS Rule implements the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health ("HITECH") Act, which was included as part of the Recovery Act

HHS issues guidance on unsecure PHI and requests comments on guidance and breach notification rules

  • Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2009

On April 17, 2009, the United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued guidance specifying the technologies and methodologies that can be used to secure protected health information (PHI), making paper or electronic PHI unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable to unauthorized individuals

Health care privacy in 2007

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 29 2007

The focus of health care privacy in 2007 will be on new enforcement issues, new opportunities and challenges related to the use of health care information

FTC and HHS issue final breach notification rules

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 28 2009

On August 17, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule (FTC Final Rule) addressing security breaches of personal health records (PHRs

The FTC Rule: breach notification for vendors of unsecured personal health records with individually identifiable health information

  • Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

The new FTC Rule was created in parallel to the HHS Rule

HHS issues security breach notice rule

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

On August 24, the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") published its rule (the "Rule") implementing the provisions of the HITECH Act that require covered entities and their business associates to provide notice of breaches of unsecured protected health information ("PHI"

Compliance with new HIPAA and FTC health breach notification rules: what healthcare entities and businesses need to know

  • Duane Morris LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 28 2009

On August 24, 2009, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") published an interim final rule amending Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ("HIPAA") regulations by adding provisions that require notice to patients and others of a "breach," or disclosure of unsecured protected health information ("PHI"), by HIPAA-covered entities and business associates (the "HIPAA Rule"

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issues final rules requiring breach notification for unsecured protected health information

  • Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 27 2009

On August 24, 2009, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) published its final rule requiring notification when health information is breached