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Louisiana Health Network Discloses Possible HIPAA Breach

Published on Tue Mar 08, 2016

A suspicious download has led to the potential breach of 13,000 Medicaid patients’ protected health information (PHI) — and officials in Louisiana are working to secure the information. Louisiana Health Connect (LHC) posted an alert on its website on Feb. 2 noting that a doctor’s office employee used another person’s credentials to access a provider website, downloaded a list of [...]
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