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Aside from hefty fines and imprisonment, damage to reputation and possible social and psychological effects result as a consequence when employees impermissibly use their access to protected health information for malicious self-gains. The threat to patient privacy is not only from the outside like those caused by ransomware criminals and hackers but also those that roots from the inside. Remember…

Healthcare providers are experiencing significant challenges in protecting patient data. These challenges are more apparent and magnified in small rural or community hospitals which sometimes are also troubled by the lack of staff and lack of expertise. One of these challenges relates to the use of security surveillance cameras within and outside the community hospital’s facility. There are several…

Healthcare organizations, clearinghouses and health plans (also known as Covered Entities under HIPAA Law) have been required to take steps to safeguard individually identifiable health information against wrongful access and use. This is under the umbrella of the Privacy Rule and to ensure that it does not impose an undue burden on small providers that may probably not need…