It’s that time again for year-in-review articles. On December 16, 2019, Modern Healthcare has published an infographic that compares HIPAA breaches which occurred in 2019 to aggregate breach statistics from
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Bankrupt Medical Records Company Hit with $100,000 Penalty for HIPAA Violations
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Filefax, Inc., a defunct Illinois medical records storage and management company, has been fined $100,000 for improperly handling medical data under an agreement with the court-appointed receiver managing the company’s…
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The Heavy Hit of HIPAA: Violations May Send You to Jail
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The recent criminal conviction of a Massachusetts physician provides a stark reminder that violating HIPAA can result in more than civil monetary penalties and the financial and reputational fall-out that…
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6 Takeaways from Memorial Hermann HIPAA Settlement: Press Releases Lead to $2.4 Million Payout
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Post Contributed by Matthew J. Redding.
On April 26, 2017, Memorial Hermann Health System (“MHHS”) agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) $2.4 million…
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Election Year Predictions: Expansion of Federal Healthcare Privacy Regulation
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Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I were quoted by our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch in her article in Medical Practice Compliance Alert entitled “6 Compliance Trends Likely to Affect…
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Six Tips for Physicians to Protect Patient Data on the Internet
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Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I were once again quoted by our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch in her recent articles in Medical Practice Compliance Alert entitled “Misapplication of Internet…
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HIPAA Compliance Trends for 2015
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As she had done in 2014, Marla Durben Hirsch interviewed my partner Elizabeth Litten and me for her annual Medical Practice Compliance Alert article on compliance trends for the …
OCR: HIPAA Privacy Rule “Not Set Aside in an Emergency”
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The threats to health privacy in the face of the Ebola scare has not escaped the notice of the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). As we reported last month, a…
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The Wild West of Data Breach Enforcement by the Feds
Imagine you have completed your HIPAA risk assessment and implemented a robust privacy and security plan designed to meet each criteria of the Omnibus Rule. You think that, should you…
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Puerto Rico Raises a High Bar for Fines Levied for PHI Breaches
By Elizabeth G. Litten on
My partner Bill Maruca was quoted in Jeff Overley’s article “Historic HIPAA Fine Will Push Feds To Get Tougher” published in Law360 on Friday, February 20, 2014. The article reports…
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