The largest HIPAA breach settlement this year cost a hospital and university $4.8 million in government-mandated fees. New York and Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) and Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) were involved in a data breach in 2010 that exposed the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of almost 7k patients publicly online. The data included patient status, vital signs, medications, and laboratory results. The HHS claims that exposure was due to a lack of technical safeguards.”]
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