Children’s Medical Centre of Dallas to pay HIPAA fines of $3,217,000 for non-compliance with multiple security rule standards
NuLLFiXThe U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of has announced civil money penalty against Children’s Medical Centre of Dallas (Children’s) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and this based on its impermissible disclosure of unsecured electronic protected health information (ePHI) and non-compliance over many years with multiple standards of the HIPAA Security Rule. A noticed of proposed Determination in accordance with 45 CFR 160.420 was issued by OCR and the notice included instruction for how Children’s could file a request for a hearing. Accordingly, OCR issued another Notice [...]