HIPAA-regulated entities are asked to take steps to ensure full compliance with the current HIPAA security requirements, like data backup.

Anyone who has visited a doctor’s office in recent years likely signed a HIPAA consent form. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services explicitly warns against the sort of arrangement ...

PIH Health, a health care entity located in California, suffered a data breach in June 2019 when 45 employee email accounts were compromised in a targeted phishing campaign. The accounts contained the ...

In Lawrenz’s response to Elliott’s request for an investigation, she said the issues raised around the HIPAA forms, as well the Evaluation to Sign Consent forms, were outside the scope of the ...

On April 23, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a HIPAA enforcement action against PIH Health, Inc. (“PIH”), a California-based health care ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years ...

Cerebral has since accepted responsibility publicly, worked to ensure that it deletes all user data, and protects existing data with a HIPAA-compliant ... me to sign a consent form that I was ...

Alleging that Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools are obtaining consent letters from parents of students enrolling in classes 5 and 8 in support of the 'detention policy' if they fail ...