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Texas Health and Human Services Fined $1.6 Million for HIPAA Violations

By Linn Foster Freedman on November 21, 2019
Posted in Health Information Privacy, HIPAA and Health Information

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it has fined the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (TXHHS) $1.6 million for HIPAA violations. This is one of the few fines the OCR has levied against a state agency.

The fine centers around a data breach that TXHHS self-reported to the OCR in June 2015…

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