Protected Health Information can easily be accessed by an unauthorized personnel if a document is left in a photocopier after copies have been made; however digital photocopiers can expose the personal health data of hundreds of thousands of people. When copies of...
A New York identity thief who stole the medical information of almost 1000 patients and committed $10.7 million in Medicare fraud has been found guilty of HIPAA violations by a New York federal court and given a 12-year sentence in a federal penitentiary. Over a...
A 911 dispatch office in Monroeville, Pittsburgh is being reviewed for a possible violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) after failing to secure protected health information. The Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of...
The HIPAA Omnibus Rule comes into today, March 26, and amends existing HIPAA regulations to provide greater security for patient data; extending the reach of HIPAA and changing regulations to bring them in line with the Health Information Technology for Economic and...
According to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations, healthcare organizations must report data violations involving more than 500 people to the Office of Civil Rights and financial sanctions apply for HIPAA breaches; however security...
The passing of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009 updated HIPAA, and as such it obliged the Department of Health & Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to complete a program of compliance audits to make...
The theft of a portable hard drive from a staff member of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) possibly exposed the ePHI of almost 2,000 people. Following a review by the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), a settlement has been agreed and the...
An official announcement has been released by the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General that a settlement has now been agreed with South Shore Hospital. The healthcare supplier will have to pay a fine of $750,000 for violations of the state Consumer Protection...
Boston Children’s Hospital has released a press statement revealing a laptop issued to one of its staff member has been lost at a conference in Buenos Aires; possibly exposing the protected health records of 2,159 of its patients. The laptop had basic security...
Before publishing Protected Health Information on any public website it is vital that the medium is reviewed for security risks. If a website is owned or controlled by a third party or a cloud service is supplied, a signed business associate agreement must also be...
The Office for Civil Rights has released a statement confirming that a settlement has been agreed with Adult & Pediatric Dermatology, P.C., of Concord, Massachusetts after the accidental disclosure of almost 2,200 patients after a memory stick was taken from the...
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