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Settlement Mobile Devices Encryption

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Encrypt Your Devices or Face HIPAA Penalties

This week, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a $3,000,000 HIPAA settlement arising from a medical center’s loss of an unencrypted laptop and flash drive. This is simply the latest of many HIPAA settlements based...more

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Another HIPAA Settlement: Stolen Laptop Costs $2.5 Million Plus Encryption Requirement

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced yet another HIPAA privacy and security settlement involving Protected Health Information (PHI) on a stolen laptop. Although this might be seen as just...more

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OCR'S Breach Settlement: The First Ever Involving Less Than 500 Patients

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The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) started 2013 with a bang by announcing that it had reached "the first settlement involving a breach of unprotected electronic protected health information (ePHI) affecting fewer than 500...more

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