Lessons Learned from HIPAA Compliance Breaches

Originally published by BARR Advisory.Written by Claire McKenna. According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), there has been a considerable upward trend in healthcare data breaches since the office began tracking data breach statistics in 2009. You may remember some of the most notable data breaches—such when Anthem Inc. suffered the largest healthcare incident ever in 2015, or the more recent St. Joseph Health System incident. What lessons can...

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