The Department of Health and Human Services has asked for an additional $38 million in federal funding for the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which would almost double the appropriations OCR currently receives. OCR is responsible for enforcing 55 privacy, security, civil rights, and religious ...

At a minimum, nine healthcare organizations have been influenced by a vendor's data breach.  On November 5, 2021, AHCV was alerted to suspicious behavior in its digital environment. Subsequent exploration indicated that a third party had obtained access to two employee email accounts using ...

The US Department of Justice has accepted a settlement in response to accusations of False Claims Act violations against Jelly Bean Communications Design LLC and its manager, Jeremy Spinks, for failing to uphold HIPAA-guarded data. The Agency for Health Care Administration in Florida acquired ...

Accordingly to the last report of the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), HHS has been called on to improve the healthcare data breach reporting process. GAO asked HHS to establish a special mechanism for entities to provide feedback on the data breach reporting process. The situation was ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced the settlement of the hacking incident at Oklahoma State University. It is a public land-grant research university that provides preventive, rehabilitative, and diagnostic care in Oklahoma. When the ...