Monitoring the Pulse of Health Care and Life Sciences
HIPAA requires that covered entities notify the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of any breaches of unsecured protected health information that affects less than 500 individuals in a calendar year within 60 days following the end of the calendar year.
Therefore, all breaches that affected less than 500 individuals that occurred in 2022 and have…
As readers of this blog know, data breaches in the health care industry are all too common. Health care organizations are an attractive target for hackers because of the nature and amount of personal information that they possess.
Therefore, it is perhaps not surprising that healthcare organizations have the highest costs associated with data breaches.…
