HIPAA Pulse
The Office for Civil Rights enforces HIPAA through investigations, corrective action plans, and financial penalties ranging from $100 to $2.1 million per violation category. Most enforcement actions target failures that automated compliance systems would have caught — missing risk assessments, inadequate access controls, and absent breach notification procedures. Understanding enforcement patterns is the best way to know where OCR is looking next.
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From the Illinois Senate Democrats: State Senator Laura Murphy is leading a comprehensive measure to protect consumers’ data and shield them from targeted advertisements. “By placing guardrails around consumers’ personal information, we eliminate companies’ ability to collect and sell the most sensitive data of Illinoisans,” said Murphy (D-Des Plaines). “We then put the power in... Source
Jonathan Greig reports: German and U.S. authorities arrested the alleged administrator behind Dream Market, a popular dark web forum that shut down in 2019. During a May 7 raid on three locations, German and U.S. law enforcement arrested Owe Martin Andresen, 49, on multiple charges of money laundering. An indictment unsealed this week by the... Source
The U.S. Department of Justice announced plans this past week to take aggressive action through coordinated investigation and adjudication of fraudulent schemes, including those perpetrated by digital health companies.The National Fraud Enforcement Division's healthcare fraud section is uniting with the U.S. Attorney Offices for the District of Arizona, District of Nevada and Northern District of California to create the new West Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force.
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