tci Part B Insider - 2013 Issue 17

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Make sure your staff is thoroughly trained — and reinforced — about HIPAA-compliant e-mail procedures. One Texas hospice is learning that lesson the hard way. Hope Hospice in New Braunfels notified 818 patients when it discovered in a routine security check that an employee had e-mailed a report containing PHI to themself using “an unsecured channel,” the hospice says in a notice on its website. “The information included in the report was limited to 818 patient names, referral source, referral and admission date, name of insurance company, chart number, county and date of discharge,” the...

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