A Guide to Safeguarding Patient Information

From the federal government, an excellent map to navigating HIPAA's privacy, security, and breach-notification rules.

Criminal attacks now are the number-one cause of data breaches in health care—up 125% in the past 5 years alone. Forty-five percent of the health care organizations surveyed by the Ponemon Institute, a leading research center on matters related to privacy and data protection, reported "criminal attack" as the root cause of data breaches—with "lost or stolen computer device" (43%) and "unintentional employee action" (40%) trailing close behind.¹

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Ponemon Institute LLC. Fifth Annual Benchmark Study on Privacy & Security of Healthcare Data. https://www2.idexpertscorp.com/fifth-annual-ponemon-study-on-privacy-security-incidents-of-healthcare-data. Accessed May 15, 2015.
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Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Guide to Privacy and Security of Electronic Health Information. Version 2.0. Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2015. http://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/privacy/privacy-and-security-guide.pdf. Accessed May 15, 2015.