Home Health & Hospice Week

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Hospice Notifies Families About HIPAA Breach

Instead of electronic files, it’s hard copy paper files that have led Hospice of Anchorage in Alaska to notify 300 patients and their families of a potential HIPAA breach. The hospice experienced a break-in over Christmas and “the perpetrator accessed locked paper files,” it says in a notice on its website. “Although no files appeared to be compromised, federal and [...]
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