Indiana Practice Charged $750K in OCR HIPAA Agreement
HIPPA agreement of $750,000 has been accepted by an Indiana radiation oncology policy along with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) after professed HIPAA contravention from an incident of 2012.
According to a Department of Health and Human Services Statement, OCR was informed on 29thAugust, 2012 by P.C., Cancer Care Group; of an Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) data violation after a laptop bag was theft from the car of an employee. The bag comprised a laptop computer and decoded backup media. The data on those machine devices involves patients’ addresses, names, Social Security numbers, Date of Birth, medical information and insurance information. OCR elaborated that maximally 55,000 present and former sufferers of Cancer Care were perhaps affected.
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