A recent HIPAA breach that involved transmission of PHI to only one party—a reporter—nonetheless cost a Connecticut practice $125,000, in part because the practice didn’t take simple precautions.
Vitagene Inc. stored data such as consumers' email addresses, dates of birth, and gene-based health information on a publicly accessible cloud-based database.
This week's note from the instructor looks at a few issues pertaining to rural health clinics that remain unsolved either due to conflicting or lacking guidance from CMS.
