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HIPAA:

Beware: Your Breach Report May Backfire

Published on Fri Jan 08, 2016

Best defense is good compliance plan. If you experience a reportable privacy breach, you could be in big trouble if your underlying HIPAA compliance plan is weak. In fact, some organizations have been hit with million-dollar fines when the HHA Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigated a breach notification — and kept looking. Read on to learn what happened, and [...]
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