Industry Note:
E-Mail Causes Hospice HIPAA Violation
Published on Fri May 03, 2013
Make sure your staff are thoroughly trained — and reinforced — about HIPAA-compliant e-mail procedures. One Texas hospice is learning that lesson the hard way. Hope Hospice in New Braunfels notified 818 patients when it discovered in a routine security check that an employee had e-mailed a report containing PHI to themself using "an unsecured channel," the hospice says in [...]