BC Advantage - 2019 Issue 4

The Importance of Being Earnest Why HIPAA and HITECH Compliance Matters

2018 was a banner year for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") in terms of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996's ("HIPAA") enforcement activity. Awards for the ten cases that settled totaled $28.7 million, which surpassed the previous record by nearly $5.2 million, which was set in 2016 (1).One of the settlements was against Cottage Health, a hospital system in California, for $3 million for breaches related to the "unsecured electronic protected health information (ePHI) affecting over 62,500 individuals, one in December 2013 and...

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