Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Don't Forget Former Staff For HIPAA Compliance

You still have to worry about employees’ laptops and portable devices when it comes to HIPAA — even if they aren’t employees anymore.
Case in point: A home burglary sparked a breach incident for St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton, Mass. Thieves stole a former employee’s laptop and thumb drive that contained 595 pa-tients’ protected health information, according to [...]
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