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Some frequent scofflaws of the nation’s health privacy laws are not punished, according to a study by ProPublica. What typically happens is that the Office for Civil Rights and the Department of Health and Human Services reminds the offenders of the obligations, according to a story published by National Public Radio on December 29.

Professor Nicolas P. Terry comments for the piece, saying “If you see the same offender continuing along the same line of conduct, then at some point, you’ve got to ramp up and say, ‘You are not taking the hint that we are dropping.’”

Professor Terry is the Hall Render Professor of Law and executive director of the Hall Center for Law and Health. He also is a member of the Health IT Consumer Workgroup. His research interests lie primarily at the intersection of medicine, law, and information technology. His recent scholarship has dealt with health privacy, social media and health, big data, and health care fragmentation. He started the podcast, “The Week in Health Law” with Professor Frank Pasquale of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. The podcast is available for download at iTunes, and PodBean, and can be listened to at Stitcher Radio. He is one of the permanent bloggers at HealthLawProf and at Harvard Law School’s Bill of Health.  His recent publications are available on the Social Science Research Network, and he can be followed on Twitter @nicolasterry.