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Privacy Briefs: May 2023

Five former Memphis-based hospital employees and another man have pled guilty to unlawfully disclosing patient information in violation of HIPAA, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee Kevin Ritz announced....more

Hogan Lovells

Employment News: PHI, age discrimination, breach of contract

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What's in a name? Return to work was a return to employee's old role - In ICTS (UK) Ltd v Visram the Court of Appeal confirmed that an employee was entitled to receive long term disability benefit until he was able to...more

Saul Ewing LLP

OCR Announces Third HIPAA Settlement in Three Weeks; Issues an RFI on Reducing HIPAA Barriers to Care

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There were two important HIPAA developments during this past week. First, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced that Pagosa Spring Medical Center (“PSMC”), a Colorado...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

HIPAA Penalties For Failure to Cut Off Access To Former Employee

It has been a busy few weeks for HIPAA enforcement. On Tuesday, the Office for Civil Rights announced its third resolution of a HIPAA breach in as many weeks. In this latest matter, OCR announced that Pagosa Springs Medical...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Failure to terminate access of departing employee leads to HIPAA penalty

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A critical access hospital in Colorado will pay $114,000 in a settlement with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) stemming from the failure to terminate a former employee’s access to a hospital database containing protected...more

Locke Lord LLP

OCR for the Win: Lincare, Inc. HIPAA Enforcement Action

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For the second time in history, on January 13, 2016, an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) upheld the imposition of civil money penalties charged against a covered entity by the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Health...more

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Health care worker sent to jail for HIPAA violations

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When we train employees on HIPAA, we always remind them that HIPAA violations carry significant penalties-both civil and criminal. Our favorite line is “Keep your day job.” Stealing patient information is never worth the...more

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Federal Prosecutors Bring Criminal Charges against Individual for Alleged HIPAA Violation

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Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Texas recently brought criminal charges under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) against a former East Texas hospital employee. The former...more

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