Ransomware Issues in the Healthcare Industry

Healthcare organizations are particularly attractive targets of ransomware attacks. Understand why they are targeted, the types of ransomware attacks they face, and how to use data privacy rules like HIPAA to mitigate or prevent them.

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• HIPAA Security Rule Evaluation Checklist
  Use this checklist to assess a covered entity’s or business associate’s compliance with HIPAA’s requirements to administratively, physically, and technically safeguard PHI maintained or transmitted in electronic form.
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  Build your HIPAA-compliant Business Associate Agreement (BAA) quickly and accurately with this automated template, allowing covered entities and their counsel to create a BAA using our interactive questionnaire.
• Health Information Privacy and Security Resource Kit
  Refer to this resource kit for detailed Practical Guidance content, including practice notes, checklists, templates, and clauses, addressing key health information privacy and security issues related to your representation of healthcare organizations.

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• Stay up to date on the laws of each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia regarding data breach notifications using Practical Guidance’s State Law Comparison Tool. Learn what parties and information are governed by each law and how each governing body determines when a breach has occurred.
• Law students and new attorneys, find the information you need—practice notes, templates, and checklists—to understand, address, and complete common healthcare-related tasks in Practical Guidance’s Summer Associate Resource Kit: Healthcare and First Year Associate Resource Kit: Healthcare!
• Review Mercer’s Law and Policy Group’s 2022 Health Law Policy and Policy Outlook and download their 39-page report regarding healthcare policy changes and compliance issues for employers, which will continue to evolve in 2022, shaped by the Biden administration, Congress, state legislatures, and the courts.
• The Practical Guidance Journal Spring 2022 Edition includes employer vaccination guidance on testing and data privacy and protection.
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