Industry Note:
E-Mail Gaffe Leads To Hospice HIPAA Breach Notification
Published on Fri Oct 25, 2013
A slip-up by a hospice employee is leading to some bad press for one hospice — and worries for their patients whose PHI was exposed. An unidentified employee at Pasadena, Md.-based Hospice of the Chesapeake e-mailed spreadsheets containing protected health information for more than 500 records to their own personal e-mail account so they could work from home, according to [...]