Hospital Fails to Terminate Former Employee’s Access to HIPAA-Protected Data

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A recent HIPAA enforcement action should serve as a reminder to healthcare organizations of the need to terminate an employee’s access to patients’ electronic protected health information (ePHI) immediately after that employee leaves the organization. The most recent action – the third within a month – involved Pagosa Springs Medical Center in Colorado. The critical…

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OIG Report Critical of AHCA’s Nursing Home Violation Verifications

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Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) is under fire for failing to ensure that nursing homes followed through and properly corrected deficiencies for which they were cited in 2015. A recently released report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reviewed 100 deficiencies at nursing homes…

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