tci Part B Insider - 2014 Issue 37

Physician Notes: Don't Forget Former Staff for HIPAA Compliance

You still have to worry about employees’ laptops and portable devices when it comes to HIPAA — even if they aren’t employees anymore. Case in point: A home burglary sparked a breach incident for St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton, Mass. Thieves stole a former employee’s laptop and thumb drive that contained 595 patients’ protected health information, according to attorney Kathryn Sylvia of Nixon Peabody. The laptop and thumb drive were not encrypted and contained patients’ dates of birth, medical history, diagnoses, test results and medications. The former employee was a physician at St. Elizabeth’s...

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