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Even Copy Machines are Subject to HIPAA

Yesterday, HHS announced a new HIPAA related settlement with Affinity Health Plan for $1,215,780 related to PHI maintained on leased copy machines.  This settlement follows an OCR investigation prompted by Affinity’s breach report filed on April 15, 2010.   Affinity became aware of the breach following notice from CBS Evening News.  Apparently, CBS purchased a […]

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