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On February 24, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced that General Hospital Corporation and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, Inc. (collectively “Mass General”) has entered into a settlement agreement to resolve a complaint that they violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rules
On February 22, 2011 the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a civil monetary penalty against Cignet Health of Prince George’s County, Maryland in the amount of $4.3 million dollars for violations of the HIPAA privacy rule
