Why is There Still So Much Confusion, Denial, and Deception? The Office for Civil Rights just announced a $ 3 million penalty against Touchstone Medical...
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A Tennessee-based medical imaging firm has agreed to pay $3 million in fines after seemingly doing just about everything wrong after experiencing a patient...
A group providing hospitalist physicians on contract has learned the hard way that sharing PHI with vendors is a no-no unless the vendor has signed a business...
In 2012 Accretive Health Care was banned from doing business in Minnesota for 2 – 6 years for a HIPAA violation. In 2018 New York State suspended a nurse’s...
The following is a guest blog post by Greg Waldstreicher, Founder and CEO of PHIflow. Actions by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) have clearly demonstrated...
I have been talking to a young company called Unity Health Score with big plans for improving the collection and sharing of data on patients. Their 55-page...
An administrative law judge has ruled that MD Anderson Cancer Center must pay $4.3 million to the HHS Office of Civil Rights due to multiple HIPAA violations...
The following is a guest blog post by Erin Gilmer (@GilmerHealthLaw). Calculated risks are often lauded in innovation. However, with increasing security...
The following is a guest blog post by Erin Gilmer (@GilmerHealthLaw). With news of Grindr’s sharing of user’s HIV status and location data, many wonder how...
Institutions throughout the health care field are talking about data sharing and integration. Everyone knows that improved care, cost controls, and expanded...
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