United States:
Bankrupt Document Storage Business Settles With OCR For HIPAA Violations
12 March 2018
by
Daniel J. McLoon
,
Mauricio Paez
,
Richard Johnson
,
Jonathon Little
,
Todd McClelland
,
Jeff Rabkin
,
Lisa M. Ropple
,
Adam Salter
,
Michiru Takahashi
,
Undine Von Diemar
,
Olivier Haas
,
Jörg Hladjk
and
Anand Varadarajan
Jones Day
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On February 13, the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services' Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") settled alleged HIPAA violations with a
company that provided document storage and other services for
health care companies. OCR's lengthy investigation began when
numerous medical records—constituting unsecured protected
health information—were left by company personnel at a
recycling facility without any security measures or other
precautions. Despite no longer being in business, the company
settled with OCR for $100,000 to cover the cost of properly and
securely disposing of remaining unsecured medical records in its
possession.
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