Children’s Hospital Colorado was fined $548,265 for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Health and Human Services Department announced Thursday.

In addition to holiday celebrations, the month of December typically ushers in a final round of enforcement actions by the U.S. Department of ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has reached a resolution agreement ...

The Office for Civil Rights, which oversees HIPAA enforcement, should improve its program for auditing compliance with the ...

HOUSTON - A Houston doctor is facing up to 10 years in prison. Dr. Ethan Haim is accused of illegally accessing young patient ...

The law "offers robust safeguards for electronic ... However, this means that you can't take legal action or bring lawsuits against a HIPAA violation, says Greene. According to Greene, it is ...

20 (Me. 2011) (holding that because HIPAA does not provide a private cause of action, it cannot create a standard for violation of state common law); Young v. Carran, 289 S.W.3d 586, 588 (Ky.

Walgreens was negligent in training and supervising Peterson, the suit said, while Peterson breached her statutory and common law duties of confidentiality and privacy to Hinchy. The six-member ...

Purdue University is a "hybrid entity" under the HIPAA Privacy Regulations. Purdue's primary purpose is education. However, Purdue does have departments or components ...

New regulations clarifying that advertising HIPAA compliance to potential customers allows the OCR to investigate any potential HIPAA violations would help deter bad actors, even in the absence of ...

Initially, the findings we have presented appear to be contradictory. On the one hand, most physicians believe that the Privacy Rule as a whole and a few of its key ...