The report lists several headlining HIPAA violations:
• In February, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston paid a $1 million fine after an employee left patient medical records on a train.
• In April, a physician at Westerly (R.I.) Hospital was fired and fined for posting about a patient online.
• In July, the University of California, Los Angeles paid $865,000 to settle possible privacy violations from medical records disclosure.
• In August, a nurse at Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center in Dearborn, Mich., was fired for posting about, but not naming, a patient on Facebook.
• In September, a $20 million lawsuit was filed against Stanford University over a data breach involving 20,000 patients.
• In October, two class-action lawsuits were filed against Sutter Health over the theft of a computer containing information on more than four million patients.
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