Not all data breaches are reported or penalized equally. While some organizations face multimillion dollar fines for alleged HIPAA violations, HHS’ Office for Civil Rights resolves thousands of ...
If there’s one place that is rife with sensitive personal data, it’s hospitals. It’s why the United States federal government legislated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ...
Titus Regional Medical Center in Mount Pleasant, Texas, fired a nurse for unauthorized viewings of patient medical records, according to a Daily Tribune report. Although not required by HIPAA to ...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - An emergency room doctor who worked in both a Cedar Rapids hospital and an Iowa City hospital, has pled guilty to illegally obtaining the personal health information of ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has ...
Fifteen nurses at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center have been fired after hospital administrators claim they improperly accessed the private medical records of a 12-year-old girl who died by ...
Attorneys for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, say Manhattan prosecutors wrongfully obtained his medical records. Mangione's attorneys claim the ...