Jacob is a consultant at Eagle Consulting with a legal background and strong focus on HIPAA-Compliance obligations. He graduated from University of Akron School of Law in 2015, has worked as a law clerk for the International Institute of Akron, and brings research, client service, and management skills to the team.
Ransomware attacks are targeting local governments in a big way this year, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom payments and tens of millions of dollars in financial impacts. These attacks have evolved of late to be much more effective in taking...
Ten years after the EHR-promoting HITECH Act was passed, many EHRs still struggle with functionality, are not user friendly, don’t “talk to each other”, and even malfunction, according to Fortune and Kaiser Health News. Most of of the time, these...
In October 2018, Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados, Portugal’s GDPR supervisory authority, fined a hospital (Centro Hospitalar Barreiro Montijo) 400,000 euros for 3 GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) violations. The violations stem from the...
Simultaneous HIPAA and GDPR compliance The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a comprehensive privacy regulation governing data on EU residents, went into effect in 2018. US-based organizations serving the healthcare industry, and who handle data of...
Ohio Revised Code 3798.10 required the Medicaid director to create standard authorization forms (medical release forms) which are compliant with both the HIPAA requirements in 45 CFR §164.508 and the Substance Use Disorder confidentiality requirements in 42...
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