tci Part B Insider - 2009 Issue 45

PRIVACY: Maintain Your Privacy With These Safeguards

Health system puts over a million records at risk. If you've been putting privacy compliance on the back burner, it's time to bring it up front again, because investigators are paying attention, and you should, too. Last month, officials of a health system in Connecticut announced that an unencrypted hard drive with about 1.5 million patients' information on it was stolen, potentially subjecting that protected health information (PHI) to abuse. Stories like this are certainly eyecatching -- and add to that the new focus in privacy with the introduction of the HITECH act -- and you can be...

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