$31K Fine Highlights the Importance of Business Associate Agreements
The Center for Children’s Digestive Health (CCDH) signed over a $31,000 check to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to settle HIPAA violations. CCDH freely provided nearly 11,000 records containing protected health information (PHI) to the company FileFax, Inc. for long-term storage. The issue is not that CCDH transferred the records but that…