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California hospital company must pay $3 million HIPAA privacy settlement, federal regulator says

( February 7, 2019, 00:48 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Cottage Health, the operator of a string of hospitals in Southern California, on two occasions allowed anyone accessing the company’s website to access patient records without requiring a username or password, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights said in imposing a $3 million settlement on the company. About 62,000 people had their health data exposed.See attached document....

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