You don’t need to be a healthcare professional to know that data breaches have plagued the industry for years. A breach is an impermissible use or disclosure that compromises the privacy or security of protected health information (PHI). According to the HIPAA Breach...
In Verizon’s 2018 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report, researchers found that nearly 58% of healthcare security incidents involved insiders. Healthcare staff, for various reasons, often violate HIPAA and cause data breaches that compromise protected health...
Many people have a “better safe than sorry” mentality when it comes to privacy and HIPAA breaches. Similar to how doctors, nurses, and technicians often consider incidental disclosures to be privacy violations, many privacy officers consider any impermissible...