protected health information

A total of 225 breaches of protected health information (PHI) affecting 6,067,751 individuals have been recorded since the HIPAA breach notification rule was issued in August 2009 pursuant to the HITECH Act, according to a report by Redspin, a provider of HIPAA risk analysis and IT assessment services.

According to the report:

  • Single breaches affecting

In our final post on what pharmaceutical companies should know about the forthcoming HIPAA/HITECH regulations, we will discuss provisions in the proposed rule relating to the sale of protected health information.  We previously covered the Department of Health and Human Service’s  (HHS) proposed treatment of communications about currently prescribed drugs, remunerated treatment communications, authorizations for future research, and compound authorizations.

Sale of Protected Health Information

The HITECH Act added a new circumstance where a covered entity must obtain authorization: the sale of protected health information.  (The HIPAA Privacy Rule also requires authorizations for uses and disclosures for marketing and most uses and disclosures of psychotherapy notes.)Continue Reading HIPAA/HITECH Regulations are Coming: What do Pharmaceutical Companies Need to Know? (Part 5 of 5)