Private Practice Ceases Conditioning of Compliance with the Privacy Rule Covered Entity: Private Practice Issue: Conditioning Compliance with the Privacy Rule A physician practice requested that patients sign an agreement […]
Mental Health Center Provides Access after Denial Covered Entity: Mental Health Center Issue: Access, Authorization The complainant alleged that a mental health center (the “Center”) improperly provided her records to […]
Mental Health Center Provides Access and Revises Policies and Procedures Covered Entity: Mental Health Center Issue: Access, Restrictions The complainant alleged that a mental health center (the “Center”) refused to […]
Private Practice Revises Policies and Procedures Addressing Activities Preparatory to Research Covered Entity: Private Practice Issue: Impermissible Disclosure-Research A private practice physician who was the principal investigator of a clinical […]
2012 is the banner year for ground-breaking HIPAA sanctions. In April, a small physican’s office, Phoenix Cardiac Surgery. P.C., was fined $ 100,000 for violating patient privacy for using free […]
It’s VERY important that you, and your staff, understand that you cannot look at medical records for your friends or family without written permission. In this case, despite repeated trainings, […]
For years, I’ve been talking about drive-by-lootings, where security screwups on part of CompanyA cause damage to innocent Company B. In this case, Microsoft (legally!) used the leaked password […]
What do Walmart & ZTE have in common? Both stocks dropped significantly in value after running afoul of the US anti-bribery laws. Moral of the story: Bribe, er, […]
Corporate America failed to learn from Japan’s 30+ year experiment with BYODs and is making new mistakes, in top of the old ones. Japan suffered massive IT penetration and data […]
IBM is one of the largest IT firms on the planet, and based on their patent filings, the smartest tech organization in human history. They invented large parts of modern […]
