1.5 Million Patients Affected by February Healthcare Breaches
Published On: March 25th, 2020
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reported 39 February healthcare breaches, affecting 1,531,855 patients. Of the reported incidents, there were 26 breaches [...]
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