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tci Part B Insider - 2011 Issue 15
Patient Privacy: Determine Whether You're at Risk of Making This HIPAA Mistake
If your staff carries paper PHI offsite, implement these proactive strategies.HIPAA enforcement is heating up, and you don't want to end up forking over a million-dollar fine due to an accidental breach.Part B providers can learn from the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR)'s recent $1 million fine to the General Hospital Corporation and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization Inc. in Boston over an incident where a Mass General employee left files on a subway train that were never recovered.What happened: According to the medical center's resolution agreement with OCR, an employee "while commuting to work on...
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