Settlement for Failure to Scrub Data from Photocopier: A $1.2 Million Lesson Learned | HL Chronicle of Data Protection In 2010, Affinity Health Plan self-reported a HIPAA breach of electronic patient records relating to 345,000 people. Those records were stored in the internal memory of digital photocopiers leased by the plan. Post-lease, the company returned the photocopiers, but did not erase the hard drives embedded in the copiers. That mistake triggered an extensive investigation by OCR, an eventual settlement and the imposition of a corrective action plan. The settlement and corrective action plan is available here<http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2013pres/08/20130814a.html> http://bit.ly/16ieTk3 Source: http://www.hldataprotection.com/2013/08/articles/health-privacy-hipaa/settlement-for-failure-to-scrub-data-from-photocopier-a-1-2-million-lesson-learned/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/16ieTk3+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
