It’s not immediately obvious why someone would want to disclose a health care test result as part of a job application. But one such request spurred a Pennsylvania entity to provide a lot more than that: it sent her whole...more
Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 11 (November, 2023) Tim DiBona clearly remembers Christmas Eve 2018 when the staff of his small firm—Doctors’ Management Service (DMS)—arrived at their West Bridgewater, Mass., office to...more
On June 7, 2022, after months of written warnings, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has levied its first fines nationwide on two affiliated Georgia hospitals for violations of CMS’ Hospital Price...more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 5 (May, 2022) - Compared to other agencies, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a little fish in the big federal pond, but it has an outsize effect on HIPAA covered entities (CEs) and...more
One side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on data security is that the sudden need to convert the workplace from onsite to remote operations potentially has required many organizations to use older equipment or personal...more