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Finally a Fine

Some past posts of mine have talked about the lack of HIPAA enforcement fines.  Finally a nursing home company in Seattle got fined.  The A.P. reported that Providence Health & Services was socked with a $100,000 fine and mandate to fix it’s security in light of past privacy complaints.

Providence failed to properly secure backup tapes, disks and laptops with electronic patient information, even after thefts of the tapes and laptops.

Providence agreed to revise its policy on transporting patient records improve training.

Tags: Healthcare+PR, HIPAA, HIPAA-Violation, Medical+PR

Posted by Shawn Whalen on August 9, 2008 at 12:46 PM
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