UCLA Health System Settles HIPAA Privacy Case
July 13th, 2011
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights will settle claims of violations of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules against the University of California at Los Angeles Health System for $865,500 and a commitment to a corrective action plan.
The complaints filed with OCR alleged that unauthorized system employees accessed and viewed the electronic protected health information of numerous patients, including two celebrity patients. Entities covered under HIPAA must have policies and procedures in place that reasonably restrict access to such protected information to employees with a valid reason to view it.
To view the resolution agreement and corrective action plan, see here.
The HHS press release is available here.
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