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$1,040,000 OCR Settlement Reached for Stolen Unencrypted Laptop
Lifespan Affiliated Covered Entity (“Lifespan ACE”) is a HIPAA-covered entity. This not-for-profit health system includes three academic teaching hospitals, a medical and mental health services hospital, and Rhode Island’s largest nonprofit behavioral healthcare provider. [...]
Why Data Protection in Healthcare is Essential
The rate at which healthcare entities are targeted by hackers has increased alarmingly over the course of the past several months. This is mostly due to the healthcare industry’s focus on [...]
$25,000 OCR Settlement Reached With Federally Qualified Health Center
From mid-March to mid-July of 2020, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was very busy… But not because it was issuing fines. HHS, responding to the [...]
HHS Amends Substance Abuse Records Confidentiality Rules
Recently, the 42 CFR Part 2 regulations, which serve to protect substance abuse disorder patient records, were revised. Their revised regulation facilitates better coordination of care in response to the opioid epidemic, while maintaining [...]
Failure to Deidentify PHI Exposed Hundreds of Patients
On April 9 students from the University of Delaware contacted the Delaware Division of Developmental Disabilities Services (DDDS) regarding a research project. The students requested demographic and disability status information on [...]
What Happens to HIPAA Lawsuits?
HIPAA lawsuits - litigation involving a plaintiff claiming violation of a HIPAA regulation - usually do not get very far, as the plaintiffs in a data breach lawsuit against Episcopal Health Services discovered. HIPAA [...]
