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Patient Privacy:

Focus On Your Laptop's Physical Security

Published on Mon Jul 04, 2011

You can minimize the risk of people inadvertently seeing protected health information on your laptop or mobile device. Here's how:

Set up your station in a low-traffic area (ideally with a door).
Don't keep your back to passers-by.
Password-protect your computer.
Log out instead of leaving your machine idle.
Set your password-protected screensaver to come on after a short period of inactivity.
Lock removable media in a desk or cabinet.

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