HIPAA faces HITECH-empowered state AGs
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, August 2, 2010
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If your organization is paying close attention to the HIPAA proposed rule published in the Federal Register July 14, keep paying attention.
However, perhaps lost in the shuffle of the proposed rule is the July 6 announcement by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s office of the $250,000 settlement Health Net and its affiliates agreed to pay for a breach of protected health information (PHI) affecting nearly a half million Connecticut enrollees.
The settlement is a landmark one. Blumenthal’s office is the first to cash in on the new HITECH-granted authority for state attorneys general to pursue HIPAA lawsuits.
How eager was Connecticut’s state attorney general to use the HITECH power?
Read more on HIPAA Update.
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