HIPAA Blog

[ Monday, November 25, 2019 ]

 

HIPAA Fine for Lack of Prompt Access.  While cleaning out my email inbox I realized that I never blogged about this case.  Bayfront Health failed to grant a mother timely access to PHI about her unborn child (hmm, this is interesting -- I would've thought prenatal records would be the mother's records, not the child's . . . ), and in fact only provided the records 9 months after the request, rather than within the 30 days required by HIPAA.  

One of the rights HIPAA explicitly grants to individuals is the right to access their own data; in this case, the mother, as personal representative of her child, could exercise that right.  

The press release doesn't state why Bayfront was slow to provide access, but it couldn't have been too bad a reason, since the fine was only $85,000, which is pretty small by OCR standards.

Jeff [11:32 AM]

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