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New York Court Finds Clinic Not Liable for Employee’s Disclosure of PHI

By Robyn Sterling on February 28th, 2012 Posted in Medical Privacy

A federal district court dismissed an action against an employer alleging vicarious liability for an employee’s dissemination of a patient’s protected health information (PHI) related to treatment for a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Specifically, the court found that the employer, a private New York medical clinic, was not vicariously liable for the actions of the employee because the employee was acting in a personal capacity which was beyond the scope of her employment.

Cignet Proves That It Is Bad To Violate The HIPPA Privacy Rule, But Worse To Ignore HHS

By Sara Krauss on February 28th, 2011 Posted in Medical Privacy

Cignet Health was fined $4.3 million by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Civil Rights for violating the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.