Lawsuit Claims R.I. Health Information Exchange Retaliated Against ‘Whistleblower’. The former HIPAA compliance officer of Rhode Island’s state health information exchange is suing the organization in a federal lawsuit claiming that she was terminated from her job after blowing the whistle on the HIE’s alleged unlawful disclosures of patient information for research purposes.
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