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tci Part B Insider - 2011 Issue 33
Physician Note: Stanford Hospital HIPAA Breach Exposes 20,000 ER Patients' PHI for Almost A Year
Plus: Privacy enforcement could heat up even more thanks to new OCR director.Despite the fact that HIPAA requirements have been around for several years now, it can still be difficult to keep patients' protected health information (PHI) secure, one hospital recently found. Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., recently discovered that the hard way when it was discovered that the names and diagnosis codes of 20,000 emergency room patients were posted on a commercial Web site for nearly a year, the New York Times reported on Sept. 8.The detailed spreadsheet that contained PHI was posted by...
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