Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
Making quite the statement on July 15, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced in a press release that it had recently settled an additional 11 cases under its Right to Access Initiative. These settlements bring the total number of enforcement actions under the Initiative to 38.
The settlements, ranging from $3,500 to…
Following the investigation of a self-reported data breach involving the loss of an unencrypted laptop containing the protected health information (PHI) of 13,000 individuals, the OCR slammed the New York based biomedical research Feinstein Institute with a whopping $3.9 million fine. The Feinstein Institute also agreed to a Corrective Action Plan that addresses compliance with…
Health care providers and their medical records custodians constantly find themselves under pressure to release medical records immediately upon receipt of a subpoena. However, regardless of the subpoena or the pesky insistence of the requesting attorney, with the recent ruling by the Connecticut Supreme Court in Byrne v. Avery Ctr., 314 Conn. 433 (2014),…
