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Hospice Notifies 5,000 Patients Of Possible HIPAA Breach

Published on Fri Apr 12, 2013

A North Carolina hospice is notifying patients of a possible HIPAA breach, and for once stolen laptops aren’t to blame. Due to a Feb. 24 break-in at its office in Burlington, N.C., Hospice & Palliative Care Center of Alamance-Caswell did suffer stolen laptops. However, the data on the laptops was all encrypted for security, reports The Times-News newspaper. Instead, the [...]
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