The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights announced it has settled with the Saint Joseph’s Medical Center in Yonkers, New York, related to a charge of unlawful release of early COVID-19 patients’ protected health information to a national media outlet on April 20, 2020.
WHY IT MATTERS
According to a statement Monday, HHS said that it began investigating the hospital for a potential breach of the Health…