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Medical records win and lose civil cases. They corroborate testimony, quantify damages, and often compel early settlements. However, medical records are protected by the federal Health Insurance ...

Omaha, Neb.-based Children’s Hospital & Medical Center agreed to pay $80,000 for violating the HIPAA Right of Access rule, which requires healthcare organizations to give patients copies of their ...

On June 15, 2023, OCR announced a settlement with Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital (Yakima) after completing a HIPAA investigation regarding allegations that hospital security guards accessed medical ...

A collection of eight healthcare-associated organizations wrote a letter to the ONC and the Office for Civil Rights asking the agencies to clarify patients’ rights to receive their medical records ...

The issue began when a former patient called the podiatrist’s office requesting a copy of his records. This month we look at a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enforcement ...

In recent Boston Globe and New York Times articles, billing companies were named in connection with a medical records data breach, one of which apparently involved medical records found in a public ...

A month later he filed a second complaint with the OCR about Dr D’s failure to provide the records. OCR notified the podiatrist’s office of the second complaint and issued a data request asking ...