tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2015 Issue 19

PHI: Keep Looking for New Ways To Secure Data

Growing number of breaches in 2015 indicate continuing vulnerability. Accidental losses of laptops, external hard drives or even papers are as likely to cause a data breach as hackers getting access to payer or provider servers. The recent examples of whopping penalties that have been imposed for breaches underscore the importance of keeping protected health information secure. Note there have been as many as 88 data breaches reported in the first half of 2015. Anthem Leads Breaches Among the many breaches was the hack into AnthemInsurance’s servers, which compromised 78.8 million records that included protected health information...

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