Strained Resources Limit Enforcement Efforts Amid Surging Cybersecurity Attacks, OCR Tells Congress
- February 23, 2024
Covered entities under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) reported 626 breaches of unsecured protected health information (PHI) affecting 500 or more individuals in 2022, an increase of 3% from the number of breach notifications in 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) indicated in its annual report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information.
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