New Ruling on HIPAA Results in Doctor Being Sued, What’s Next?
An interesting ruling from the Connecticut Supreme Court came down this past week. The justices ruled that a woman can sue her doctor for negligence if the physician violates regulations that dictate how practices must maintain patient confidentiality as outlined...
California and a Whole Lot of Breaching Going On
In 2013, the California healthcare sector had a bad year! They were responsible for 15% of the breaches by industry and 6% of the total number of records breached… 6%, that’s not so bad for total numbers, right? I mean the retail sector had 15.6 million records...
Why Ebola News isn’t a HIPAA Privacy Violation
These are some scary times – right now there is a huge outbreak of the Ebola virus in Africa (just in case you were living under a rock), and our first case was diagnosed in Dallas, TX. Wait, isn’t the release of this information a HIPAA Violation? Well...