Healthcare IT News: Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital settled with the Office of Civil Rights for $999,000 for compromising patient privacy during the filming of an ABC documentary.
All three hospital reached separate settlements with OCR for inviting ABC film crews to film on site without first obtaining patient authorization. BMC was fined $100,000, BWH settled for $384,000 and MGH paid $515,000. Each will implement staff training as part of individual corrective action plans.
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