Research Guides: NU 205 Fundamentals / HIPAA Resources: HIPAA Violations

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AMA / HIPAA Violations & Enforcements
This page, the responsibility of the American Medical Association, supplies a good basic description of civil violations and criminal penalties and more.
Compliance and Enforcement
Click on "compliance and enforcement in the left column on this page, next click on case examples to review a few sample cases of HIPAA violation. Look here for subject terms for searching the topic on our databases
HIPAA Violation Cases
From HIPAA Journal
What is a "breach"
This page on the Office for Civil Rights web page discusses what constitutes a breach of protected information
What is a HIPAA violation?
This entry was posted on the HIPAA Journal website in March 2018. It defines what constitutes a HIPAA violation and what happens when a violation occurs.
Westlaw Campus Research
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There are many keywords you can use here. I combined this string of words: hipaa compliance violation nurse hospital - and found 26 cases (in the left column, under VIEW). A search of: hipaa and EHR - yields 23 cases. Be creative!

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