There are many benefits associated with a HIPAA compliant medical answering service. First of all, if you are a doctor’s office and you need a medical answering service, it simply has to be HIPAA compliant in order to protect your patients and your practice. Any communications from your office to your patients or from your […]
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Health data breaches involving more than 500 patients rose to 498 and affected 21,141,322 patients, according to a HIP/SA analysis of OCR data from Sept. 18 through Oct. 17. This came after a month in which no new breaches were reported and when breaches totaled 489 and affected 21,021,132 individuals. The leading reason for major
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The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reported it received 74,554 complaints, suggesting that it received 878 complaints in September, a drop of 114 complaints (992) complaints in August. It received 835 complaints in July. Although there was a significant drop, the rate of complaints appears to remain well over 800 on a monthly basis.
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