University of Washington Medicine pays $750,000 over security lapses tied to 2013 breach

The University of Washington Medicine will spend $750,000 to settle charges that it potentially violated the HIPAA Security Rule by failing to implement policies and procedures to prevent, detect, contain and correct security violations. The HHS Office for Civil Rights, which is charged with upholding the HIPAA Privacy Rule, announced the terms of the settlement on December 14. Specifically, OCR spotlighted insufficient risk analysis at UWM. Privacy & Security read more
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