Search Tag: HIPAA Violation

IT Management

Restrictions-on-tele-health-lifted-to-ease-covid-19-strain

2020 19 Mar

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it is lifting penalties for healthcare providers that use telehealth during the COVID-19 crisis that violates HIPAA regulations.   The lift of restrictions is enabling healthcare providers to have a wider reach to patients at a time when...Read more

IT Management

Hospital-fined-387-000-for-hipaa-violation

2017 29 May

Unlawful disclosure of protected health information (PHI) has cost a New York City hospital a $387,000 settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Spencer Cox Center for Health, now the Institute for Advanced Medicine run by St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City, was penalised following a complaint received...Read more