Healthicity Blog

Welcome to our Wednesday News Roundup, where we scour the internet to bring you the most relevant, breaking news in the healthcare industry.

In January of 2012, Collen Herren, former clinical nursing director for specialty clinics at Marshall Medical Center (Placerville, CA), filed a lawsuit (Case 2:12 -cv-00098-JAM-KJN) under the False Claims Act

The thing about working in the healthcare industry is that it’s impossible to know enough. Policies, laws, technology, and culture are constantly changing.

We've received numerous questions about how ransomware threats affect HIPAA compliance, so I decided to answer them all here in a single Q&A post. Let's dive in.

Healthcare environments are prone to conflicts of interest. Healthcare is the perfect example of a complex adaptive system (CAS).These systems are prone to error on a regular basis, but, lucky for us, they’re also capable of incredible innovation, if the right conditions are created.

For the first time in 25 years, on July 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), published the first major set of proposed changes to the requirements for participation for long-term care facilities.

On July 11, 2016, Jocelyn Samuels, Director of the Office for Civil Rights announced that a Factsheet with detailed guidance for Covered Entities and Business Associates on Ransomware had been published.

Check your email, folks, because Phase Two of OCR’s HIPAA audit program has begun and selected covered entities received notification letters, yesterday, Monday, July 11, 2016.