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Hospice Receives a $50,000 Penalty for HIPAA Violations

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text dp_animation=””]A federal investigation of an information breach that affected fewer than 500 individuals has resulted in a hefty penalty for HIPAA violations.

This demonstrates how important it is to understand that no matter what the size of a breach, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights may issue penalties if its investigation reveals HIPAA non-compliance issues.

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Surprisingly, many organizations do not have policies and procedures in place to properly audit, track and contain critical data bearing devices as they are removed from the network. The days of maintenance personnel replacing drives or returning failed drives is long gone. And now manufacturers are offering hard drive retention programs because they don’t want to be responsible for your data.

TechR2 has a solution that provides you with physical security and technical security for your data bearing devices from the moment they are removed from your network. Contact us today to learn about our Tear-A-Byte® solution and how we can help you improve your data security while mitigating your risk of a data breach.

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