Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

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On April 30, 2018, a Massachusetts physician was convicted of a criminal violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), as well as one count of obstruction of a criminal health care investigation, in a Massachusetts federal court. The convictions relate to the purported sharing of confidential patient information by the…

The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts recently announced that three former district managers of the pharmaceutical firm Warner Chilcott have been sentenced for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and committing healthcare fraud.

The allegations include that the district managers directed certain sales representatives to fill out prior…

Federal regulators announced last week that Illinois’ largest hospital chain would pay $5.5 million, a record payment under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), in connection with three 2013 data breaches that affected the protected health information of millions of its patients. The Advocate Health Care Network, which manages twelve hospitals and hundreds…

One in five U.S. consumers are tracking their every movement, from their heart-rate, skin temperature, respiratory rate to their activity levels, food intake, weight, and sleep patterns. With this so-called ‘black box’ for the human body, this data collected through our wearable fitness devices has great potential to be used to bolster or dispute a…

Now even the fitness tracker you wear on your wrist is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. Fitbit’s Corporate Wellness team is one of the fastest growing sectors of the company, and Fitbit voluntarily took this “proactive step” to implement a HIPAA compliance program so that it could broaden…

Advanced Data Processing, Inc. and Intermedix Corp. were sued in federal court in Florida last week for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for failing to protect the health information of “potentially millions” of individuals.

Plaintiffs allege that for several months in 2012, an employee of Intermedix viewed health information of patients…

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a fact sheet on the privacy, security, and breach notification rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Designed to apply to HIPAA-covered entities, including health care organizations, health care plans, providers, and their business associates, the fact sheet provides a basic overview…