The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued its latest press releases on health care topics, which you can read and access below.
|
| The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with Inmediata Health Group, LLC (Inmediata), a health care clearinghouse, concerning potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule, following OCR’s receipt of a complaint that HIPAA protected health information was accessible to search engines like Google, on the internet. |
|
|
|
| The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), in partnership with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington (USAO), entered into an agreement with MultiCare Health Systems of Washington (MultiCare) to resolve complaints which alleged that MultiCare’s failure to provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services, such as sign language interpreters or tactile sign language interpreters, for patients who are deaf or hard of hearing, blind or low vision, or both, violated federal civil rights laws – Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 504), Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (Section 1557), and Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA”) – which protect against discrimination. |
|
|
