tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2014 Issue 12

Industry Notes: One Physician Causes Biggest HIPAA Settlement in History

If you search your loved one’s name on the internet, the last thing you want to see is his private medical records showing up in the search results. But that’s exactly what happened to one stunned New Yorker, spurring a HIPAA investigation that would result in $4.8 million in settlements. A physician who developed apps for two Manhattan hospitals meant to deactivate his personal computer server from the hospital network, which included electronic protected health information (ePHI), setting off one of the biggest breach settlements.  “Because of a lack of technical safeguards, deactivation of...

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