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HITECH Act: Yet another privacy breach?

Breaches Happen Period. It is not of question of whether a privacy breach will happen at your organization but rather a question of when? Here John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ("BIDMC"),  reports on the case of a traveling thumbdrive. He also outlines some steps that his organization has taken to mitigate the damage from similar breaches and, in general, does an effective job of describing the compliance challenges under the HITECH Act.

In this instance a little less that 3000 patient records were comprised. OK, it is not in the 500K range of breaches we have been reading about lately, BUT large enough to trigger the breach notification rule of HITECH if

Full post as published by LawTechTV on January 28, 2010 (boomark / email).