Latest HHS Fine Hits The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
by Rick Kam, ID Experts
Originally published on September 26, 2012
The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc. (MEEI), will pay $1.5 million to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for potential violations of the HIPAA Security Rule. In the HHS release, they explain that it wasn’t just one issue or misstep that led to the fine, but rather a series of errors and inaction.
“…such as conducting a thorough analysis of the risk to the confidentiality of ePHI maintained on portable devices, implementing security measures sufficient to ensure the confidentiality of ePHI that MEEI created, maintained, and transmitted using portable devices, adopting and implementing policies and procedures to restrict access to ePHI to authorized users of portable devices, and adopting and implementing policies and procedures to address security incident identification, reporting, and response.”
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