On August 4, 2016, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the U.S. Health & Human Services Department (“HHS”) announced a $5.55 million HIPAA settlement with Advocate Health Care Network (“Advocate”), the largest...more
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The University of Rochester Medical Center (“URMC”) recently agreed to pay a $15,000 penalty for providing patient names, addresses, and diagnoses to a departing nurse practitioner (“NP”) without first obtaining authorization...more
As an increasing number of health care providers move to electronic health record systems, patient privacy is becoming a serious concern. On January 25, 2013, new regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and...more
There is a lot of confusion among providers caused by therecent publication of new rules under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”). On January 25, 2013, the HIPAA final omnibus rule...more