Posts Tagged ‘Penalty’

Nurse terminated for looking at Family records

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, […]

ZTE shares dive 17% due to FBI investigation

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, […]

NYCLA CLE – May 15, 2012

  http://nycla.org/index.cfm?section=CLE&page=CLE_Detail&itemID=2682&dateID=20120515 Location: 14 Vesey Street Faculty: Program Co-sponsor: NYCLA’s Cyberspace Committee Faculty: Raj Goel, brainlink.com and Natalie Sulimani, Law Offices of Natalie Sulimani

The Rising Cost of HIPAA Violations: $100,000 Fine Levied on Physician Group | Mintz Levin – Privacy & Security – JDSupra

Here’s a fantastic summary of the Phoenix Cardiac Surgery Group’s landmark HIPAA Violations penalty & settlement. The days of small medical practices thinking they were too small for enforcement are […]

UTAH Medicaid hacked – over 181,000 records and 25,000 SSNs stolen

The Utah Department of Technology Services DTS notified the Utah Department of Health UDOH on Monday the server that houses Medicaid claims was hacked. On Wednesday, the UDOH publicly announced […]

FTC fines RockYou $250,000 for storing user data in plain text

social game developer RockYou suffered a serious SQL injection flaw on its flagship website. Worse, the company was storing user details in plain text. As a result, tens of millions […]

Breach Hits Card Processor Global Payments – shares drop 9%

Global Payments didn’t disclose what type of data had been accessed, but said it had notified “appropriate industry parties to allow them to minimize potential cardholder impact.” News of the […]

Learn from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee HIPAA breach

In March 2012, BCBS of Tennessee agreed to pay $ 1.5M for HIPAA data breaches. BCBSoTenn failed to encrypt hard drives containing voicemail files.  Is YOUR medical practice encrypting hard […]

ANSI Free Report – The Financial Impact of Breached Protected Health Information

ANSI (the American National Standards Institute ) has produced a phenomenal, and free, report on the financial impact of losing healthcare data.   Highly recommended that you download it from http://webstore.ansi.org/phi/

New Year's Eve Burglary Triggers Medical Records Firm’s Bankruptcy

Still think HIPAA compliance is strictly for the big guys? Still think your small medical practice or medical billing business is safe from hackers, criminals and litigators?   From the […]