For the last three years, the Ponemon Institute has taken the pulse of the healthcare industry and its compliance with HIPAA.
Privacy officers must ensure their hospital removes potential patient identifiers from data sets used for reasons outside of treatment, payment, and healthcare operations, privacy experts say.
It was a record year in 2012 when it came to OCR's HIPAA enforcement action.
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