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EHR HIPAA Violations: Employee Impermissible Access Undetected for 12 Years
Published On: July 6th, 2021
Former healthcare worker was discovered to have been improperly accessing patient files through an EHR platform for 12 years. Over this time period they accessed 7,000 patients’ files without [...]
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In the span of a week, the U.S. Department of Justice closed two cases involving criminal HIPAA violations. One of these cases involved the violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute, [...]
Fax.Plus is an online fax service that allows businesses to easily schedule faxing, pull detailed reports, import contacts, and automatically retries failed faxes. But, is Fax.Plus HIPAA compliant? The [...]
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