In August, Advocate Health Care Network agreed to pay a $5.55 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR), for multiple HIPAA violations. In ...

Under the HITECH Act and HIPAA omnibus rule, business associates of covered entities must comply with most of the privacy and security rules applicable to covered entities. In order to ensure patient ...

WHEREAS, Business Associate now and in the future may have relationships with Covered Entity in which Business Associate creates, receives, maintains or transmits Protected Health Information (as ...

The final rule expanded the definition of business associate to include all subcontractors of business associates that create, receive, maintain or transmit protected health information (PHI) on ...

It is clear that the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act era creates substantial new legal obligations for entities that operate as “business associates” under ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Passed during the 2018 state legislative session, House ...