Wellpoint is among the leading providers of Affiliated Health Policies, with nearly 36 million policy holders throughout the United States. Fraction of its databank of policy holders was accessible to illegal persons between October 23, 2009, and March 7, 2010. The safety infringement was brought to the notice of Wellpoint in March 2010 when a … Read more
Disobeying HIPAA rules can incur severe fines, as found by Idaho State University this month. The organization has lately been compelled to settle down with the Division of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights for suspected breaches of the HIPAA Privacy Law. Penalties were issued for HIPAA non-compliance problems pertaining to inadequacies, network … Read more
The HIPAA Comprehensive Regulation was printed on Jan 25, 2013, by the Division of Health and Human Services (HHS) like an improvement to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The latest rule came into effect on March 26, 2013, and changes current HIPAA rules to provide greater safety of patient data; spreading the … Read more
U.S. Lawyer John M. Bales has declared that Joneshia Cranford, a 33-year old inhabitant of Lufkin in the Eastern Region of Texas, has pleaded guilty to breaches of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Law of 1996. Cranford was accused of wrongly accessing the Safeguarded Health Info of patients at the healthcare establishment where she … Read more
The thievery of a moveable hard drive from a worker of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) possibly revealed the ePHI of about 2,000 persons. After an inquiry by the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), an agreement has been achieved and the DHHS should pay the HHS $1.7 million for the … Read more
Prior to displaying Safeguarded Health Info on any website, it’s necessary that the method is evaluated for safety dangers. If a website is maintained or owned by a 3rd party or a cloud service is offered, an authorized business associate contract should also be obtained prior to any info is publicized. It might appear obvious … Read more
The Office for Civil Rights has accomplished its first implementation action developing from the HITECH Infringement Notice Rule and has penalized Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee (BCBST) for breaching the Security and Privacy Regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Law (1996). BCBST has currently bargained a disbursement with the HHS and will … Read more
As per a New York Times story circulated this week, the health reports of 20,000 patients of Stanford University Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., have been announced online and available to the public for nearly a year after a mistake was made by one of the hospital’s business partners. The hospital as well as its service provider – Multi-Specialty … Read more
Health Net, Connecticut-based insurance firm is to pay a penalty of $55,000 to the Office of Vermont Attorney General for HIPAA disobedience and failing to safeguard the information of the state’s policyholders after a HIPAA data infringement that revealed the private health info of 1.5 million persons. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (1996) … Read more