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HIPAA violation

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Appeals court upholds HIPAA conviction of EHR snooper

A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a former employee of the UCLA Healthcare System for accessing the hospital's electronic health record system without authorization, in violation of HIPAA.

Cook County appointment reminder system drops the ball on HIPAA

Dear Cook County (Ill.) Bureau of Health Services: I wanted to draw your attention to a likely HIPAA violation caused by some seriously bad IT. It seems you had a wrong phone number on file for a

Report: More records compromised than previously thought at UCLA Medical Center

UCLA keeps having to admit that its medical records snooping problem is worse than it previously appeared. In August, the university medical center admitted that 939 patients had had their records