Florida hospital Bayfront Health St. Petersburg has reached a monetary settlement of $85,000 with the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for failing to comply with HIPAA’s new right of access provision. The hospital allegedly failed to give a mother timely access to records about her unborn child, only providing the requested information more than nine months after the initial request. Bayfront will also undertake a corrective action plan and be monitored by OCR for one year.

Vans seized, ‘unsafe’ Uber suspended and drivers quizzed during West Midlands Police sting
In an operation to reduce motoring offences, police officers and driving agencies pulled over and checked vehicles in the Black Country at a quiet industrial