Accretive Health recently agreed to settle a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint that stems from a July, 2011 incident in which an Accretive employee’s laptop was stolen from his car. As a medical billing and revenue management services provider, Accretive grants its employees access to “sensitive personal health information” including “patient names, dates of birth,
January 2014
HHS Proposed Rule Affects HIPAA Privacy Rule and Background Check Reporting
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a proposed rule that would modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule by allowing health care providers to make certain disclosures to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The NICS aims to keep guns from being sold to those…
Dermatology Practice Agrees to Settlement in Connection with HIPAA Breach
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Posted in HIPAA, HIT, and EHR
A Massachusetts-based dermatology practice recently agreed to pay $150,000 to settle claims that it failed to have sufficient policies and procedures in place to address a breach notification requirement under the HITECH Act. The investigation was initiated following a report that an unencrypted thumb drive containing electronic protected health information of approximately 2,200 individuals was…