Medical_Law_and_Ethics

ANOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY HIPAA BARES ITS TEETH $4.3 MILLION DOLLAR FINE FOR PRIVACY VIOLATION Cignet Health Care of Temple Hills Maryland was fined 4.3 million for HIPAA violations. Cignet failed to provide several patients with copies of their health records, Cignet also failed to respond to the patients and HHS of Civil Rights. HHS tried for more than two years to contact Cignet however in the end Cignet showed willing full neglect to comply with Privacy Rules. Threat post http://threatpost.com/en-us/blogs/hipaa-bares-its-teeth-43m-fine-privacy-violation-022311 SEATTLE SYSTEM WILL PAY $1OOK HIPAA FINE AFTER REPEATED BREACHES A Seattle based health system has agreed to pay $100,000 HIPAA fine to HHS as well as improve its medical data security after failing to properly secure data backup tapes, disks, and laptops. This marks the first time that HHS has agreed to a resolution Agreement. During 2005 and 2006 medical data was stolen from providence health and services several times, with backup tapes, optical disks, and laptops being lost or stolen repeatedly. The unencrypted personal health information of more than 386,000 patients was compromised. AG SUES HEALTH CARE SERVICE FIRM FOR ALLEGED PATIENT PRIVACY VIOLATION Accretive debt collector based out of Chicago and licensed in Minnesota as a debt collector was sued. They had thousands of Minnesota patient’s personal health information which they shouldn’t have had access to. The company is being sued because they failed to disclose to the patients how their records were being used, and they failed to protect their records. The lawsuit seeks to stop accretive from containing data collections. Minnesota Public Radio http://www.minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/01/19/swanson-accretive-health-lawsuit/ UCLA FINED $865,500 FOR PRIVACY VIOLATION OCR investigated UCLA Health System after receiving complaints from two celebrity patients. The investigation showed that from 2005-2008 unauthorized employees repeatedly looked at electronic protected health information of many UCLAHS patients. The investigation also showed that they failed to supply sufficient security measures. Health Data Management http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/hipaa-privacy-ucla-fine-ocr-42757-1,html