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Take 3 Steps To Avoid Punishing HIPAA Penalties

Look for compliance clues in two new government reports. Recent HIPAA reports mandated by the HITECH act may seem like jumbles of depressing statistics, but you can actually learn quite a bit from them. Here are three key lessons you can glean from these reports (see story, p. 211): 1. Ratchet up your theft-prevention ef-forts. Theft didn’t merely rank number [...]
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