Fifth Circuit Issues Landmark HIPAA Decision That Will Impact Future OCR Investigations
By EsqSocial Corporation 20/01/21
On January 15, 2021, the Fifth Circuit vacated a $4.3 million penalty that the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had issued against the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (M.D. Anderson) in 2017. OCR initially levied the penalty against M.D. Anderson after the hospital disclosed three separate security incidents in which unencrypted devices containing electronic personal health information (ePHI) were stolen or lost in 2012 and 2013....
By: WilmerHale