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- The privacy and security provisions of HIPAA are complex. HIPAA allows states to establish stricter standards than those in HIPAA, but not less strict versions.For this assignment, research two real-life examples of HIPAA violations of privacy or security laws that occurred in the U.S. since the passage of the HIPAA law (after 1996). Each violation described should be serious, and one that resulted in a fine or penalty for the individual or company involved.
- You can find real-life examples of HIPAA violations in news reports, medical journals, professional health care publications, and other similar reliable factual sources
- How did the HIPAA violation occur?
- What policies, if any, did the organization have in place to protect against the violation?
- What was the penalty for the violation (fine, prison terms, termination of employment, etc?)
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1. INTRODUCTION
2. BODY
3. CONCLUSION
4. REFERENCE
Running Head: MANAGEMENT
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Violations
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Introduction
The federal government and industries have established various guidelines and
compliance rules and regulations to protect the organizational systems as well as protecting the
rights of their clients and the citizens. Such principles, therefore, authorize a strict law of
sensitive and personal information to shun data violations in any given firm (Sterling, 2015).
While considering the health center vicinities, data breaching includes unauthorized access to the
private health information which incorporates the name of the patient, social protection, the date
of birth and the healthcare treatments. Therefore, in 1996 the Congress passed the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to take control of anyone with an offense of seeing
or using this vital personal information and any extra health information offered to the specialists
and hospitals. Furthermore, breaching of the...