Tuesday, September 25, 2018

UMass AG settlement for HIPAA breach

Originally published by Jeff.

Apparently, 2 employees of UMass Memorial Health Care improperly accessed PHI of patients, and UMass has been fined $230,000 by the Massachusetts Attorney General for violating HIPAA.  Not a whole lot more information there, but it’s interesting for 2 points: it’s the state AG enforcing the federal HIPAA statute (along with the state Consumer Protection Act and Data Security Law); and it’s yet

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