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Wake-up Call for Business Associates – Comply with HIPAA Now

By Gary Pritts | Published: February 23, 2012
Last month Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed suit against Accretive Health, Inc., a company which provides revenue cycle management services for two Minnesota Health Systems – Fairview Health Services and North Memorial Health Care. According to the complaint, a computer laptop with sensitive information on 23,500 patients was stolen from a rental car. Eight [...]
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OCR To Train State AGs on HIPAA Enforcement

By Gary Pritts | Published: March 22, 2011
Fresh news from the National HIPAA Summit, held March 9-11 in Washington DC, is that the HHS Office of Civil Rights has scheduled “HIPAA Enforcement Training” for State Attorneys General. Susan McAndrew, OCR’s Deputy Director for Health Information Privacy spoke at the Summit and said that her office would pay all training expenses for 2 [...]
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