HIPAA Privacy Rule Archives - Apgar and Associates

When It’s OK to Share: OCR’s Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Limited Waiver

March 17, 2020 by Chris Apgar, CISSP, CCISO

Novel Coronavirus, aka COVID-19, is on track to stretch our healthcare system to the breaking point, and our healthcare providers along with it. In effect as of March 15, 2020, the OCR’s published a Limited Waiver of HIPAA Sanctions and Penalties that during this National Emergency could give care providers one less source of anxiety … Read more

OCR News: Single-location Pharmacy Pinged with Penalty & Corrective Action Plan

May 7, 2015 by Chris Apgar, CISSP, CCISO

Remember a few years ago we wrote about When it Comes to HIPAA Violations, Size Doesn’t Matter? Then it was a small specialty physician practice in Arizona that was hit with a penalty – now it’s a Denver pharmacy, Cornell Prescription Pharmacy. A well-known single-location pharmacy serving the greater Denver metropolitan area, they’re being pinged … Read more

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