by HIPAAgps | Nov 29, 2018 | HIPAA News
Allergy Associates of Hartford has agreed to settle a case of prohibited disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI), which resulted in a fine of $125,000. Although the Connecticut-based allergy treatment practice agreed to settle with no admission of liability,...
by HIPAAgps | Nov 1, 2018 | HIPAA News
The Employees Retirement System of Texas (ERS) reported on October 16, 2018, about a security incident that affected 1.25 million members. ERS learned about the security incident on August 17, 2018. There was a flaw in one of the search functions in ERS OnLine, which...
by HIPAAgps | Sep 20, 2018 | HIPAA News
A Texas ICU/ER nurse was fired after she posted about a severe incident of measles on social media. The story has been convoluted some as this nurse is an anti-vaxxer, so many people thought she lost her job for that reason alone. It turns out that she lost her job...
by HIPAAgps | Jul 19, 2018 | HIPAA News
Sharing patient information on social media without patient consent is a HIPAA violation. Recently, this type of HIPAA violation became an issue when employees at Thompson Health’s M.M. Ewing Continuing Care Center in Canandaigua, New York, took pictures and/or videos...
by HIPAAgps | Jun 21, 2018 | HIPAA News
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MD Anderson) will have to pay more than $4.3 million in HIPAA fines because of three separate data breaches that occurred in 2012 and 2013. The recent press release from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) stated that a...
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