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Army Soldier Data Stolen

by HIPAA Admin on May 14, 2010

in HIPAA Headlines

Arg!
Nope, not speak like a pirate day.
That is me censoring and keeping things clean here.
Details:

Government Contractor

Laptop Stolen from office

CD-ROM in laptop had data on 207,000 Reservists

Questions:

Why was data not encrypted?
Why was data on a CD-ROM?
What is going on here?

PHI on a mobile device (laptop/external hard drive/CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/thumbdrive) that is not encrypted is just asking for disaster.
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De-Identified Health Information

by HIPAA Admin on March 11, 2010

in HIPAA Headlines

What does it take for PHI to not be PHI?
Glad you asked…though in reality for a practice, this will not come up much, it is good to have an idea of what make a patient’s information PHI and therefore covered under HIPAA.
Key Points:
De-identified health information, as described in the Privacy Rule, is not PHI, and [...]

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