Some physicians who have received a meaningful use incentive check for adopting electronic health records may have received another piece of mail recently from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The gist of that letter: You are being audited. ...
Mass. Eye & Ear Hospital Pays $1.5 Million HIPAA Penalty for Stolen Laptop Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc. (collectively referred to as “MEEI”) has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and ...
Alaska settles HIPAA security case for $1,700,000 The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) $1,700,000 to settle possible violations of the Health Insurance Portability and ...
Phoenix Cardiac Surgery, P.C., of Phoenix and Prescott, Arizona, has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) a $100,000 settlement and take corrective action to implement policies and procedures to safeguard the protected health information ...
Telcoms Store SMS Text Message Details: Not HIPAA Compliant By John Lynn As an extension to my previous post called “Texting is Not HIPAA Secure” I wanted to point out some data that Wired posted about Telcom’s SMS message retention ...