Mass General settles potential HIPAA violations for $1 million
February 28th, 2011
HHS announced that General Hospital Corporation and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization Inc. (Mass General) will pay $1,000,000 in settlement of potential violations of HIPAA, and will sign a Resolution Agreement with HHS to develop and implement procedures and training to prevent possible violations of patients’ privacy in the future.
Mass General was extensively investigated by HHS after a patient reported their protected health information had been lost by the hospital. In the end, it was discovered that the protected health information of 192 patients had been lost when documents were left on a subway train by an employee. The documents were never recovered.
The full press release can be found here.
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