Comment Re:HIPPA? (Score 1) 377
As someone said, the outsourced company is not prosecutable by our laws unless they have signed contractual language stating that they and their employees will not reveal the information. However, would the prosecution be successful, and would the restitution be satisfactory?
HIPAA potentially can prosecute UCSF Medical Center, Transcription Stat, and Tom Spires for not researching and assuring the safety of outsourced transcription.
I would hope that Mr. Spires would immediately terminate all overseas contractors and Transcription Stat would scrutinize *all* people that work for hte company and possibly require no sub-contracting beneath that.
It is refreshing to see that Transcription Stat is taking responsibility and accountability for this unfortunate act. Will companies get fined; will people lose there jobs/contracts over this, definately so. Will someone do jail time? Probably not, as this was not an intentional act performed on US Soil.
We can hope this will raise awareness of other entities that use off-shore outsourcing for PHI.
HIPAA potentially can prosecute UCSF Medical Center, Transcription Stat, and Tom Spires for not researching and assuring the safety of outsourced transcription.
I would hope that Mr. Spires would immediately terminate all overseas contractors and Transcription Stat would scrutinize *all* people that work for hte company and possibly require no sub-contracting beneath that.
It is refreshing to see that Transcription Stat is taking responsibility and accountability for this unfortunate act. Will companies get fined; will people lose there jobs/contracts over this, definately so. Will someone do jail time? Probably not, as this was not an intentional act performed on US Soil.
We can hope this will raise awareness of other entities that use off-shore outsourcing for PHI.
