Cottage Health Hit With $3 Million HIPAA Settlement

On Thursday, HHS' Office for Civil Rights said Cottage Health, which operates several hospitals, agreed to pay the fine and implement a corrective action plan in the wake of an investigation into the breaches that affected a total of 62,500 individuals. Earlier, the California attorney general had reached a $2 million settlement with Cottage Health."The Cottage settlement reminds us that information security is a dynamic process and the risks to ePHI may arise before, during and after implementation covered entity...