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Patient Privacy:

Avoid This GI Practices Fate — Enact Privacy Safeguards Now

Published on Tue Mar 16, 2021

A server issue is said to have prompted the breach of 2,500 patient files. Someone walking out of your practice carrying 2,500 patient files would be hard to miss, but you’d probably find it much more challenging to notice if those files were accessed digitally. In reality, the more technologically advanced medical practices become, the more training, resources, and equipment [...]
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