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Don't Let Device Disposal Break Your HIPAA Compliance

Published on Fri Aug 31, 2018

How careful are you when it comes to disposing of your agency’s electronic devices? If you’re not careful enough, you could be violating HIPAA. Risk management under HIPAA requires covered entities and their business associates to protect patients’ protected health information (PHI), and that includes data available on electronic devices and media, maintains the HHS Office for Civil Rights in [...]
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