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Daily Dashboard | OCR penalizes Care New England Health System for HIPAA violation Related reading: Evolving privacy law 'exciting' for IAPP Westin Scholar

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights fined Care New England Health System $400,000 for a HIPAA violation, Health Data Management reports. The penalty stems from the three-hospital system losing unencrypted backup tapes holding sensitive health information from ultrasound studies on more than 12,000 individuals. The data included names, dates of birth, examination dates, physician names and some Social Security numbers. The OCR said Care New England must complete a prescribed corrective action plan over the next six years. “OCR found the consent judgment to sufficiently cover most of the conduct in this breach, including the failure to implement appropriate safeguards related to the handing of the PHI contained on the backup tapes and the failure to provide timely notification to the affected individuals,” the agency said in a statement.
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