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Medical Center Staff Under Fire for Exposing Patient Data

Published on Tue Nov 12, 2019

Even if your technology isn’t compatible between departments, you must still follow the HIPAA laws. Technology tools are immeasurably helpful to medical staff members, but sometimes they can also create problems when it comes to patient privacy. That’s the lesson that staff members at a Veterans Affairs hospital in California recently learned, according to a July 31, 2019 report by [...]
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