REGULATORY REVIEW: Keep Your Patient Data Secure

Regulatory Review

Keep Your Patient Data Secure

Review HIPAA and use HHS’ and OCR’s resources

Regulatory Review

The digitalization of health care brings new vulnerabilities.

Regulatory Review

Keep Your Patient Data Secure

Review HIPAA and use HHS’ and OCR’s resources

The Information Age has revolutionized the health care industry, giving patients and providers greater, more specific access to personal health data. Care coordination operates with greater efficiency through the electronic transfer of personal health information (PHI), and providers and facilities can be reviewed on an expanded range of quality metrics. This digitalization of health care, however, also brings new vulnerabilities; health care facilities that previously worried about physical security must now consider ways to combat remote, electronic theft.


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