Posts Tagged ‘Small Business’

Hospital Revises Email Distribution as a Result of a Disclosure to Persons Without a "Need to Know"

Hospital Revises Email Distribution as a Result of a Disclosure to Persons Without a “Need to Know” Covered Entity: General Hospital Issue: Impermissible Use and Disclosure A complainant, who was […]

Private Practice cannot require patient "gag" agreements

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 must provide patient with copy of medical records submitted to Auto Insurance Company

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 must provide copies of psychotherapy notes after patient review

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 must revise research agreements

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 […]

First State HIPAA Enforcement Action against a Business Associate – $2.5 Million Penalty, $25M loss of business

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 […]

HIPAA Compliance Seminar for SMBNetworks & New Haven Community Medical Group – Aug 16, 2012

2012-08-16-RajGoel-HIPAA_PCI_REDFLAG_Effective_MulticomplianceWe had a FANTASTIC turnout at the  Second Annual Medical Practice Technology Day on Thursday August 16th 2012 from 8:00 am till 12:00 pm at the New Haven Lawn Club. […]

Twitter goes down due to DUAL datacenter failures

Most cloud vendors promise great uptime and brag about having redundant offsite facilities. How many are planning for DUAL (or MULTIPLE) datacenter failures? Twitter, SalesForce, Amazon have each had massive […]

Google Talk goes down GLOBALLY

If your business (or life) revolves around GoogleTalk, you were in for a rude surprise last week.   GoogleTalk, Twitter, Salesforce, Microsoft Azure…each went down for hours on-end, globally.   […]

Microsoft proactively kills Windows Gadgets via Windows Updates

Usually, when we/I talk about cloud threats, it’s usually in the context of something negative – data loss, privacy breach, etc.   In this case, Microsoft collaborated with security researchers, […]