tci Part B Insider - 2015 Issue 43

Physician Notes: Home Robbery Prompts $90,000 HIPAA Settlement

Plus: Medically unnecessary urinalyses could lead to jail time for Kentucky lab owners. You’ve take every step to secure protected health information (PHI) at your medical practice, but have you done the same at home? A Connecticut hospital learned this lesson the hard way after a home robbery led to the possible exposure of 8,000 patients’ PHI. The case: A Connecticut hospital hired a subcontractor to work on its computer systems, and one of the subcontractor’s employees left a laptop containing the unencrypted PHI of 8,000 people at home. When the home was robbed, the...

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