OCR began its investigation following receipt of a breach report in September, 2011, which indicated that an unencrypted, password protected laptop
containing electronic protected health information (e-PHI) of approximately 9,000 patients was stolen from a locked vehicle belonging to an employee of a hospital business associate.
OCR's investigation uncovered that North Memorial's business associate had access to its hospital database
containing electronic protected health information (e-PHI) of more than 289,000 patients in order to perform payment and operations activities on its behalf.
«Establish (and implement as needed) policies and procedures for responding to an emergency or other occurrence (for example, fire, vandalism, system failure, and natural disaster) that damages systems that
contain electronic protected health information.»
Not exact matches
Thousands of
electronic comments submitted to the FCC's website
contain identical, duplicated messages that favor rolling back the 2015 rules, which were intended to
protect websites and online services from being slowed or blocked by Internet service providers.
Because your master directory
contains much sensitive information, it's crucial that you keep it safe — either in a password -
protected electronic document or, if a paper document, under lock and key.
«Lawyers who send documents in
electronic form to opposing counsel have a duty to exercise reasonable care to ensure that metadata
containing confidential information
protected by the attorney client privilege and the work product doctrine is not disclosed during the transmission process.»
Border officers must consult with CBP senior counsels before searching any
electronic devices allegedly
containing privileged or
protected material.
The Arguments The Province argued that the
electronic databases
contain the same personal medical information that is
contained in the original medical records, and that it is this specific medical information that s. (2)(5)(b) promises to
protect.
We note that a covered entity may conduct the
electronic funds transfer portion of the two payment standard transactions with a financial institution without restriction, because it
contains no
protected health information.
The
protected health information
contained in the
electronic remittance advice or the premium payment enrollee data portions of the transactions is not necessary either to conduct the funds transfer or to forward the transactions.
For example, information
contained in a paper record may be scanned and transmitted worldwide almost as easily as the same information
contained in an
electronic claims transaction, but would potentially not be
protected.
Moreover, they argued that computer back - up files may
contain protected health information, but business partners can not be expected to destroy entire
electronic back - up files just because part of the information that they
contain is from a client for whom they have completed work.