by HIPAAgps | May 16, 2019 | HIPAA News
The Tennessee-based, medical-imaging company, Touchstone, has agreed to pay a hefty $3-million fine to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in order to settle a breach that occurred in May of 2014. They have also accepted further corrective actions in order to eliminate...
by HIPAAgps | May 9, 2019 | HIPAA News
Recently, The Dental Board of California revealed that a number of dentists in the state are failing to provide patients with copies of their dental records in a timely manner. These dental records include x-ray images, photographs, test results, models, treatment...
by HIPAAgps | May 2, 2019 | HIPAA News
Sharp Healthcare and Sharp Grossmont are both facing legal action from outraged patients alleging that they secretly recorded female patients during gynecological examinations. The plaintiffs are seeking compensation for videos that were taken without their consent...
by HIPAAgps | Apr 25, 2019 | HIPAA News
A study conducted by Ponemon Institute in 2018, which included almost 6,000 people across various industries and 12 countries, found that health care information was ranked surprisingly low in encryption percentages when compared to other common industry sectors. Data...
by HIPAAgps | Apr 18, 2019 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is set to launch a review program in April 2019, to ascertain whether HIPAA covered entities are in compliance with Administrative Simplification rules for electronic...
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