tci Part B Insider - 2012 Issue 27

Privacy: Make Sure Your Business Partners Don't Sabotage Your HIPAA Compliance

This stolen laptop led to headaches for one health entity.How far do you want to go in policing your business partners' HIPAA information security practices? One Connecticut provider may wish it had gone further after a recent HIPAA violation.VNA HealthCare in Hartford, Conn. and its parent Hartford Hospital learned that a contractor's employee doing hospital readmission data analysis had a laptop stolen from the employee's home, the VNA and hospital say in a release. The laptop contained unencrypted data on more than 7,400 VNA patients and 2,000 hospital patients, they reveal.The data includes patients'...

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