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Patient Privacy:

Bring Old School HIPAA Rules Into the New Year With These Tips

Published on Tue Jan 16, 2018

Most likely, some staffers have completely forgotten the tenets of HIPAA. The potential ways to accidentally expose patients' protected health information (PHI) continues to expand. From privacy violations at the reception desk to email phishing ploys to lost unencrypted mobile devices - the opportunity for you and your employees to bring censure and penalty down upon your practice grow exponentially [...]
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