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Minnesota School District Enters Into Five Year Consent Degree with Department of Justice and the Office of Civil Rights in Resolution of Peer-on-Peer Harassment and Discrimination Claims Based Upon Sex and Sexual Orientation

Carolyn Mazanec Dugas
March 14, 2012 18:33

The Anoka-Hennepin school district (District) in Minnesota recently entered into a five year consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to resolve two separate actions brought by six current or former district students...

$1.5 Million Settlement of First HIPAA Enforcement Action Resulting from HITECH Breach Notification Rule

Foley Hoag
March 14, 2012 12:50

The trend toward increasingly large health information breach settlements has continued with yesterday's announcement thatBlue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee (BCBST) has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) $1,500,000 to settle potential violations of HIPAA's...

When should you OCR documents? A quick primer.

Ernest Svenson
February 13, 2012 16:26

Many people know that [OCR][ocr] stands for ‘optical character recognition,’ or if they don’t know that then they know that OCR is what you do to a scanned document to make it text-searchable. When you buy a new scanner like... Related StoriesSave Bates-stamp settings for future useThe 8...

HHS Reports on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information

Foley Hoag
January 23, 2012 01:53

In its recent Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information, the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services, we see confirmation of certain trends-- bigger breaches and breaches involving theft of electronic media: Between January 1, 2010...

HHS/OCR Audits Are Almost Here - OCR Issues "Sample" Audit Letter

Michael Kline
December 01, 2011 16:49

 Contributed by David Restaino, Esq.  Last month a posting was made on this blog series regarding action being taken by the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) relating to the fact that government audits for...