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HIPAA:

Have Patient Data? You Can Still Travel Safely

Published on Wed Jun 01, 2011

Just make sure you maintain your HIPAA compliance on the road. Protecting your clients' private medical information may seem like old hat, but breaches continue to make headlines. Consider this: The HHS Office for Civil Rights reported 16 privacy breaches affecting at least 500 individuals in the past month and a half. On average, the OCR has reported an average of 18 breaches per month since February of last year -- and the majority of those were the result of stolen laptops or misplaced files. Example: OCR recently fined the General Hospital Corporation and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization Inc. in Boston to the tune of $1 million after a Mass General employee left files on a subway train that were never recovered (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XX, No. 14, p. 108). The last thing you need is for a staffer to accidentally expose a client's confidential information to an unauthorized person. [...]
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