Roughly 344,823 of those breaches affected fewer than 500 patients each, but 2,267 of them appeared on OCR’s “Wall of Shame” — a publicly accessible data breach portal that displays HIPAA violations affecting more than 500 individuals.
HITECH established the reporting rules associated with HIPAA violations, in which organizations who fail to protect patients’ protected health information must report breaches of more than 500 individuals to OCR’s public portal. Since it was implemented, approximately 178 million individuals have been affected by major breaches.
“There is a lot more to HIPAA enforcement than resolution agreements and audits. Healthcare organizations, contractors and mobile app developers face perilous times if they fail to recognize this,” said Dennis Melamed, editor of Health Information Privacy/Security Alert. “Most people don’t realize that healthcare entities and their contractors have had to either change their practices or discipline employees tens of thousands of times since 2009 because of HITECH.”
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