……………..a cumbersome C-A-P Written by Dianne Bourque The U.S Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights has received tremendous publicity in recent years for its upward-trendingfines and aggressive enforcement of HIPAA violations. Seven-figure fines are becoming the norm for serious violations, for example, in May of this year, OCR fined a hospital and university a combined total of $4.8 million dollars for their separate HIPAA violations…. Continue Reading
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First HIPAA Resolution Agreement of 2013 — and it certainly will not be the last
Posted in HIPAA/HITECH, Privacy RegulationWritten by Stephanie D. Willis The HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced its first HIPAA Resolution Agreement of 2013 last week. According to the press release, Idaho State University (ISU) must pay OCR $400,000 and comply with the terms of a two-year corrective action plan (CAP) to address violations of the HIPAA Security Rule,… Continue Reading