General Surgery Coding Alert - 2013 Issue 14
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Article Overview
This brief news article covers a potential HIPAA breach affecting a North Carolina hospice organization and related patient notification steps. It is relevant to healthcare compliance, privacy, and risk management readers who track healthcare data security events and incident response practices.
Why This Topic Matters
Healthcare organizations need to understand how breaches can occur through both electronic and paper records, and what notification and mitigation steps may follow after an incident.
What You Will Learn
- How a hospice privacy incident was reported
- What types of records were implicated in the potential breach
- What response measures were offered to affected patients
- How healthcare organizations communicate after a suspected data security event
Who Should Read This
- Healthcare compliance professionals
- Privacy and security officers
- Medical office managers
- Hospice and home health administrators
- Risk management teams
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