Upon reading and researching HIPAA and the impact of the HITECH Act upon it, basically broadening its applicability as well as adding new requirements for privacy breach notifications, I recently was compelled to write an article about what I foresee as likelihood that, after a very frustratingly slow start (by several years!) of HIPAA enforcement, increasingly more HIPAA sanctions will be made in the coming months and years.
SearchCompliance printed my article in three parts in their Compliance Tips section…
- “HIPAA enforcement getting stronger“
- “HIPAA enforcement, more government audits leading to more convictions“
- “HIPAA criminal convictions outpace sanctions“
You can get my pre-edited “long” version of the article, which I titled as “HIPAA felony convictions, sanctions and upcoming trends“, as a PDF here.
Agree? Disagree? Let me know what you think!
Tags: awareness and training, convictions, HIPAA, HITECH Act, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, policies and procedures, privacy awareness, privacy breach, privacy training, risk management, sanctions, security awareness, security training