by chuck_ltd | 20 Jan, 2017 | CHCUK News & Articles, HIPAA, News, NIS, Real Word Evidence
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and 15 other federal agencies today (19 January 2017) issued a final rule to update regulations that safeguard individuals who participate in research. Most provisions in the new rule will go into effect in 2018. The...
by chuck_ltd | 13 Jan, 2017 | CHCUK News & Articles, Data Privacy, HIPAA, News
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced its first Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) settlement of the year regarding the untimely reporting of a breach of unsecured protected health...