Safeguarding Health Information: Takeaways from HHS and NIST 2024 HIPAA Security Conference
Lexology October 30, 2024
Highlights
- The federal government has devoted significant free resources that can help the members of the healthcare industry shore up their data security efforts.
- Developing robust privacy and security compliance programs can help avoid breaches and may also reduce penalties if something goes wrong.
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is focused on its security risk assessment initiative and enforcement of security risk assessment and management requirements.
- This Holland & Knight alert is part of our continuing “OCR in Overdrive” series focused on emerging regulatory developments at OCR and the effects on patient privacy and data security requirements for healthcare providers, plans, clearinghouses, and their business associates.
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