Compliance: Don't Get Burned–Report Your Breaches Now Or Risk a Higher Penalty Later
The HHS says there is no excuse for dragging your feet on reporting a HIPAA violation.
Haste makes waste or so they say, but in the case of notifying the feds about a HIPAA breach the opposite is true. The sooner you alert the HHS secretary to the loss of protected health information (PHI) the better—don’t stew over the breach or you will suffer the consequences.
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Presence Health in Illinois, which serves thousands of patients with approximately 150 locations, including 11 hospitals and 27 long-term care and senior living facilities, failed to...
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