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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: March 2024

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Research from Guidepoint Security found that 2023 saw an 80% increase in ransomware activity year-over-year, driven in part by multiple mass exploitation campaigns impacting hundreds of organizations. In total, the report...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

OCR and an ALJ send a Clear Message about Importance of Mitigating Risks

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In the latest twist in a case that began last year, an administrative law judge (ALJ) agreed that a $4.3 million penalty, levied by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) against the MD Anderson Cancer Center as a result of HIPAA...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Pays $218,400 to Settle Alleged HIPAA Security Case Stemming from Use of Cloud-Based Document...

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Alleged HIPAA Violations Resulted from Medical Center’s Failure to Risk Assess Internet-Based Document Sharing Application and Inadequate Breach Response. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Beth Israel To Pay $100,000 for Massachusetts Health Information Breach

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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Beth Israel) reached a settlement with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office for a data breach in which a physically unsecured laptop was stolen containing personal and protected...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Two Health Care Organizations Pay Largest HIPAA Fine at $4.8 Million Resulting from Unsecured Shared Network

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New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University entered into a settlement with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to resolve allegations that the organizations had violated the...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

$4.8 Million – Largest HIPAA Settlement to Date

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On May 7, 2014, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued a press release announcing that two health care organizations—New York and Presbyterian Hospital (“NYP”) and Columbia...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

Server Breach Makes ePHI Accessible on Google, Costs Covered Entities $4.8 Million

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It would be pretty unsettling if your patient status, vital signs, medications, and laboratory results were available for the world to see on Google, wouldn’t it? According to recent settlement agreements announced by the...more

K&L Gates LLP

Recent California Decision Holds That Privacy/Data Breach Liability Covered Under “Traditional” Insurance Policy

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In an October 7th decision, the United States District Court for the Central District of California upheld coverage under a commercial general liability policy for a hospital data breach that compromised the records of nearly...more

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