Q What is your opinion on providing extra protection for the medical records of staff who are also patients in an organization?
Mobile devices-thumb drives, smartphones, external hard drives, tablets, and laptop computers-are creating risks for PHI exposure.
Education is giving people the knowledge they need. Training helps them develop the skills that allow them to put that knowledge to use.
The initial 20 OCR HIPAA audits offer insight with respect to privacy and security compliance.
If HIM professionals needed another reason to be concerned with protected health information (PHI) outside of paper records, a surgery center in Arizona provided one in April.
If you don't know where all of your PHI is, how can you ensure that you protect it?
