The University of Washington Medicine (“UWM”) has agreed to settle the investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of potential HIPAA violations arising from a...more
Last week, the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) reached agreement with the New York Office of the Attorney General (NYOAG) to settle alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...more
Just before Thanksgiving, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (“Lahey”), a non-profit teaching hospital located in Burlington, Massachusetts, agreed to pay $850,000 for a breach of unsecured electronic protected health...more