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 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, […]
In the name of democracy, and political campaigns, the Obama campaign took things to a scary new level. Just as Girls Around Me used public Facebook & FourSquare data […]
Katherine Losse was Facebook’s employee #51 and personal ghost writer for Zuckerberg. Here’s what she revealed about DARK PROFILES. NB: LinkedIn does this as well. So do most other […]
Q: What do Steve Wozniak & Raj Goel have in common? A: We both see tremendous problems with Cloud Computing, Security, Property Rights, etc. Other than that, absolutely nothing 🙂 […]
