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 […]
2012-08-16-RajGoel-HIPAA_PCI_REDFLAG_Effective_MulticomplianceWe had a FANTASTIC turnout at the Second Annual Medical Practice Technology Day on Thursday August 16th 2012 from 8:00 am till 12:00 pm at the New Haven Lawn Club. […]
Most cloud vendors promise great uptime and brag about having redundant offsite facilities. How many are planning for DUAL (or MULTIPLE) datacenter failures? Twitter, SalesForce, Amazon have each had massive […]
If your business (or life) revolves around GoogleTalk, you were in for a rude surprise last week. GoogleTalk, Twitter, Salesforce, Microsoft Azure…each went down for hours on-end, globally. […]
Usually, when we/I talk about cloud threats, it’s usually in the context of something negative – data loss, privacy breach, etc. In this case, Microsoft collaborated with security researchers, […]
