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HIPAA:

Ensure PHI Disposal Methods Are Compliant and Secure

Published on Tue Oct 04, 2022

Caution: Disregarding HIPAA rules can lead to violations. With cybersecurity concerns dominating the HIPAA landscape, your practice may rightly be focusing on data safety and IT-related issues. However, you shouldn’t discount the importance of basic HIPAA compliance such as the proper way to dispose of protected health information (PHI). Why? Merely throwing your patients’ PHI away without securing the data [...]
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