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The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced earlier this week that Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary , and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates, Inc., an affiliated physician group practice (collectively “MEEI”) have agreed to pay $1.5 million and enter into a three-year Corrective Action Plan (CAP) to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule
On February 22, 2011, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it fined Cignet Health of Prince George’s County, Maryland (Cignet), more than $4.3 million for breaching the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule
On May 3, 2010, the HHS Office of Civil Rights issued a Request for Information to assist it in the development of regulations implementing the expanded HITECH rights individuals have to an accounting of protected health information disclosures through an electronic health record
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently issued separate rules implementing the groundbreaking breach notification provisions of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (“HITECH”
