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Board reviews HIPAA changes and adopts governance policy updates including new settlement policy
Summary
Staff delivered HIPAA training outlining HHS penalty-tier adjustments, guidance on online tracking and likely 2023 privacy-rule changes (shorter PHI response times and broader access); the board also unanimously approved governance policy revisions including an updated contingency-reserve policy and a new policy for handling legal settlements (policy 2-13).
Ryn Coleridge, Director of Enterprise Systems and Analytics and HIPAA Privacy and Security Officer, presented annual HIPAA training for board members, highlighting the top five violations (including unencrypted lost devices and database breaches), recent HHS inflation adjustments to civil-penalty tiers and new HHS guidance on online tracking technologies affecting covered entities and business associates.
Coleridge outlined likely federal…
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