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Cignet Health Case Study

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The HIPAA privacy rule was established to protect individual 's medical records and other personal health information (HHS.gov). It also gives the right to patients to obtain a copy of their medical records. Cignet Health was fined $4.3M after discovering that two of their hospitals violated the HIPAA privacy rule on 41 separate occasions (hipaajournal.com). They violated the privacy rule by refusing to provide patients with a copy of their own medical records. the privacy violations took place between December 2008 thru October 2009. During the investigation Cignet refused to cooperate with OCR (Office for Civil Rights), so OCR requested a subpoena in order to view the patients records. When Cignet finally gave them the 41 records they were
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