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Tag: HIPPA
HIPAA settlement focuses on improperly disposed records
“Personal health information must be safeguarded as it passes from patients to doctors to medical billers and other third-party contractors,” Coakley said. “We believe this data breach put thousands of…
Medicaid Records Stolen for 182,000 Beneficiaries
e Security Shredding & Storage News. June 2012 Salt Lake City, UT – Hackers who broke into Utah state computers stole the medical records of 182,000 beneficiaries of Medicaid and…
Tax Preparer Tosses Sensitive Records In Dumpster
e A Spartanburg tax preparer says she unknowingly dumped boxes of records, some of which included personal information By: GRAEME MOORE | WSPA . Published: August 02, 2012. A tax preparer who closed…
Tolerance For HIPAA Non-Compliance Is Low
1 Hunton & Williams LLP, June 7, 2012 On June 7, 2012, at the annual Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security Conference hosted in Washington, D.C. by the Department…
True Story of HIPAA Violations
Behold the “Wall of Shame” Known as the “Wall of Shame,” the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website details 281 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)…