Life Hope Labs reached a $16,500 settlement with the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over a potential violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule's right of access provision. The Georgia-based diagnostic laboratory will also implement a corrective action plan, including two years of OCR monitoring. OCR Director Melanie Fontes Rainer said HIPAA covered laboratories "must follow the law and ensure that they are responding timely to records access requests."
Lab reaches $16K settlement over potential HIPAA violation
Related stories
Privacy review: How to develop an internal data analytics program
TAKE IT DOWN Act: The next bipartisan US federal privacy, AI law
Privacy in the age of robotics: A discussion with Erin Relford
Notes from the IAPP Canada: An evolving approach to privacy amid geopolitical shifts
GPS 2025: Sam Altman, Alex Blania discuss Tools for Humanity's biometric technology