Healthcare providers and others handling sensitive patient data are now finding the stakes raised if they suffer a data breach because of a new law known as the “Health Information Technology for ...

Last year, Congress enacted an amendment to the HITECH Act in January 2021 (“HITECH Amendment”) to require that the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) consider whether a covered entity or ...

The HITECH Act does not add or delete factors, but requires OCR to base its penalty determination “on the nature and extent of the violation and the nature and extent of the harm resulting from such ...