Federal HIPAA enforcers smacked a Texas pediatric hospital with a whopping $3.2 million civil monetary penalty after investigating breaches involving unencrypted mobile devices and uncovering longstanding failures to comply with HIPAA.
In a Feb. 1 statement, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights says it imposed the hefty penalty on Children’s Medical Center of Dallas “based on its impermissible disclosure of unsecured electronic protected health information and non-compliance over many years with multiple standards of the HIPAA Security Rule.”
