by HIPAAgps | May 30, 2019 | HIPAA News
Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc., a medical records service in Indiana, has paid the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) $100,000 to settle a HIPAA breach. In May, 2019, the OCR reported that Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) had paid a fine of $100,000 and agreed...
by HIPAAgps | May 23, 2019 | HIPAA News
Oregon Health Authority (OHA) recently notified the public of a successful spear-phishing attempt. What happened? A spear-phishing email was sent to an OHA Oregon State Hospital employee in the beginning of May. On May 6, 2019, the employee opened the email and...
by HIPAAgps | May 20, 2019 | HIPAA News
Washington State University recently found itself on the hook for around $4.7 million in a class-action, data-breach lawsuit. In April 2017, a self-storage facility used by WSU was broken into and a small safe was stolen. Unfortunately the safe contained a backup hard...
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...
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