Becker's Healthcare May 28, 2019
Often when hospitals or health systems violate HIPAA rules, they are required to pay hefty fines.
Recently, Medical Informatics Engineering, a medical records service provider, paid $100,000 to settle a HIPAA violation that exposed the protected health information of nearly 3.5 million patients.
Below are the 10 most common HIPAA violations, according to the HIPAA Journal.
- Snooping on healthcare records.
- Failure to perform an organization-wide risk...