Recently an officer from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) found a number of medical records in a recycling dumpster, accessible to the public, in Broad Ripple Park, Indianapolis. A quantity of confidential documents were located in file folders...
Recently, the head of the House Select Investigative Panel tasked with reviewing the trade of baby body parts by abortion clinics corresponded with the director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights asking an investigation into...
In a recent ruling the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found that a former town administrator of Townsend, MA., violated the HIPAA Privacy Rule in June last year. This occurred when he posted an “information packet” online...