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Pay Attention To This HIPAA Risk From Your Own Employees

Published on Fri Jul 28, 2023

Letting unauthorized employees access patients’ medical records may cost you — a lot. Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital in Washington is learning that lesson the hard way. The nonprofit community hospital is paying $240,000 after 23 of its security guards “impermissibly accessed the medical records of 419 individuals,” the HHS Office for Civil Rights notes in a release. The hospital will [...]
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