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Use These Real-World Tips To Avoid Laptop HIPAA Breaches

Published on Fri May 16, 2014

OCR is pushing entities harder to perform risk assessments. Two breach cases based on stolen unencrypted laptops share many similarities (see related story, above). Among them are three key steps these companies did not take that could have prevented the breaches in the first place — or at least minimized the breach-associated costs and sanctions. 1. Make Encryption Your Best [...]
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