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2025 Ninth District President

Dr. Renuka Bijoor

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Welcome to the Ninth District Dental Association

The Ninth District Dental Society was formed in 1909 and renamed to the Ninth District Dental Association in 2002. We have a membership of over 1500 dentists in 5 counties: Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess, Orange and Putnam.

In its quest to serve both the public and the profession, the Ninth District embodies the highest ideals.

The mission of the 9th District Dental Association is to serve and support its members and the public by improving the oral health of our community through Advocacy, Continuing Education and Camaraderie.



Have Fun Bowling and Socializing with Other New Dentists!

Don't Forget to Register!!  OPEN TO ALL NEW DENTISTS!

 

Second Annual New Dentist Bowling Event!

Monday, April 7th 6:30-8:30pm 

BOWLERO WHITE PLAINS
47 Tarrytown Road
White Plains, NY 10607

 

A FREE fun event, enjoy laughs bowling and food and drinks!  Come mingle and meet other 9th District New Dentists!
Please spread the word to other new dentists. 
     

CO-SPONSORED BY

Bota Consulting Group
MLMIC Insurance Company


To Register please email or call HQ 914-747-1199.

                                                                             We Hope to See You There!!


Lana Hashim, DDS

Chair, New Dentist Committee


Renuka Bijoor, DDS

President
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


                                                                                                                                                     




 

 

 

 

 

 


Latest News Around the Tripartite

OCR Takes HIPAA Action Against Hospital for Allowing Phishing and Cyber Attacks

Dec 7, 2024

Per the notice below, the United States Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has taken action under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) for failing to guard against phishing and other cyber attacks.

HHS Office for Civil Rights Imposes a $548,265 Penalty Against Children’s Hospital Colorado for HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules Violations

Multiple HIPAA violations lead to OCR’s 7th penalty of the year

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced a $548,265 civil monetary penalty against Children’s Hospital Colorado, concerning violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules following receipt of breach reports in 2017 and 2020, relating to e-mail phishing and cyberattacks.  OCR enforces the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules, which set forth the requirements that covered entities (health plans, health care clearinghouses, and most health care providers), and business associates must follow to protect the privacy and security of protected health information (PHI).  The HIPAA Security Rule establishes national standards to protect and secure our health care system by requiring administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and security of electronic PHI (ePHI).

“Email continues to be a very common way for cyberattackers to enter health information systems and jeopardized privacy and security,” said OCR Director Melanie Fontes Rainer.  “Health care entities should identify potential risks and vulnerabilities to email accounts and train their workforce to protect health information in those accounts.”

OCR investigated Children’s Hospital Colorado following breaches which reported a phishing attack that compromised an e-mail account containing 3,370 individuals’ PHI and another after three e-mail accounts were breached, containing 10,840 individuals’ PHI.  OCR’s investigation determined that the first reported breach occurred because multi-factor authentication was disabled on an e-mail account.  The second breaches occurred, in part, when workforce members gave permission to unknown third parties to access their e-mail accounts.  OCR also found violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule for failure to train workforce members on the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and the HIPAA Security Rule requirement to conduct a compliant risk analysis to determine the potential risks and vulnerabilities to ePHI in its systems.  In June 2024, OCR issued a Notice of Proposed Determination seeking to impose a civil money penalty.  Children’s Hospital Colorado waived its right to a hearing and did not contest OCR’s findings.  Accordingly, OCR imposed a civil money penalty of $548,265.  The Notice of Proposed Determination can be found at: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/compliance-enforcement/agreements/childrens-hospital-colorado-npd/index.html.  The Notice of Final Determination can be found at: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/compliance-enforcement/agreements/childrens-hospital-colorado-nfd/index.html.  OCR recommends that health care providers, health plans, health care clearinghouses, and business associates that are covered by HIPAA take the following steps to mitigate or prevent cyber-threats:

  • Review all vendor and contractor relationships to ensure business associate agreements are in place as appropriate and address breach/security incident obligations.
  • Integrate risk analysis and risk management into business processes; conducted regularly and when new technologies and business operations are planned.
  • Ensure audit controls are in place to record and examine information system activity.
  • Implement regular review of information system activity.
  • Utilize multi-factor authentication to ensure only authorized users are accessing ePHI.
  • Encrypt ePHI to guard against unauthorized access to ePHI.
  • Incorporate lessons learned from incidents into the overall security management process.
  • Provide training specific to organization and job responsibilities and on regular basis; reinforce workforce members’ critical role in protecting privacy and security.

OCR regularly provides guidance and information to the health care industry to support data privacy and security.  Recent resources include:

The HHS Breach Portal: Notice to the Secretary of HHS Breach of Unsecured Protected Health Information may be found at: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf.  OCR is committed to enforcing the HIPAA Rules that protect the privacy and security of peoples’ health information.  Guidance about the Privacy Rule, Security Rule, and Breach Notification Rule can also be found on OCR’s website.  If you believe that your or another person’s health information privacy or civil rights have been violated, you can file a complaint with OCR at: https://www.hhs.gov/ocr/complaints/index.html.


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