U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has hit a California-based healthcare provider with a $3 million HIPAA settlement. It’s the latest in a recent series of hefty penalties issued in HIPAA cases. Cottage Health agreed to pay the fine and implement a corrective action plan in the wake of an investigation. The first of the two breaches occurred in 2013 and affected more than 50,000 patients, arose when electronic protected health information on a server was accessible from the internet. This ePHI included patient names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, conditions.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/cottage-health-hit-3-million-hipaa-settlement-a-12014