HIPAA Blog

[ Monday, December 23, 2019 ]

 

I'm cleaning out some old emails this morning, and don't think I posted these things previously:

Elite Dental: this Dallas dental practice responded to Yelp reviews in a way that exposed PHI.  The fact that the patient already posted, or that the PHI is already public knowledge, does not relieve the provider of his/her/its HIPAA obligations, and posting on Yelp, even truthfully and even if the original poster was lying, is still a HIPAA violation.  Thus, be very careful with your social media activities.

Korunda Medical: OCR's second fine for failure to respect the patient's right to access PHI.  The big problem for Korunda is that when first contacted, OCR provided them with assistance to fix the problem, but Korunda kept failing to transfer this patient's records.  This follows the Bayfront case back in September. Like Bayfront, the fine is small; access failures aren't an endemic problem, but in egregious cases they do deserve to be made into an example. 

Sentara: Failure to notify of a breach.





Jeff [8:48 AM]

Comments: Post a Comment
http://www.blogger.com/template-edit.g?blogID=3380636 Blogger: HIPAA Blog - Edit your Template