After doing some research on articles of HIPAA violations I found a few stories that caught my attention. The first story is about An Alabama woman that has been charged with violation of the HIPAA privacy rule for stealing paper surgery schedules about 4,500 patients from Trinity Medical Center in Birmingham. She was then using the names of these patients as well as their date of birth and social security numbers to commit identity theft. By Law this is HIPAA violation of privacy the lady should have not been going through any of the patient’s records without a valid reason. The second story I found very interesting was about a man named Huping Zhou 47 years old from Los Angeles. He was the first person in the nation to receive
