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HIPAA:

Safeguard Your 'Black Market Gold' Paper Records

Published on Fri Jun 19, 2015

Although there has been intense focus in the healthcare industry on securing electronic forms of protected health information and medical records, paper records are still highly vulnerable. “While not as easily transferrable as its digital counterpart, the information in paper-based medical records remains extremely lucrative in the black market,” warned New York City-based attorney Jordan Cohen in analysis for the [...]
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