For our HIPAA-covered entity readers, we have asked these questions before: Have you taken a business associate inventory ? Have you undertaken a comprehensive risk assessment as required by HIPAA? It’s all getting real – read on.
Tag Archives: OCR Enforcement
Latest OCR Enforcement Action: Underbed Storage is Not Appropriate for PHI
Posted in HIPAA/HITECHWritten by Kate Stewart Recent enforcement actions by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) have highlighted that, not surprisingly, Covered Entities should not leave medical records in a physician’s driveway and should not dispose of protected health information (“PHI”) in a dumpster. From an action against a home… Continue Reading
