Violations of the Health Insurance Accountability and Portability Act are serious business, but they may not be sufficient grounds to sue violators, absent other circumstances, according to a decision just reached by a federal judge. A plaintiff in Washington, DC had charged that LabCorp left her protected health information (PHI) in plain sight at a local hospital, where it could be viewed by others not authorized to see it. That has been accepted as fact …
Read More![Upheld: HIPAA Violations by Themselves Are Not Ample Grounds to Sue Upheld: HIPAA Violations by Themselves Are Not Ample Grounds to Sue](https://www.jucm.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Upheld-HIPAA-Violations-image-2.jpg)