When I came across this article on HealthITSecurity.com: "5 Lessons Learned in OCR HIPAA Settlements" I knew I wanted to share it with you. It reports on the outcome of the past two years of OCR HIPAA settlements and shows how likely it is for healthcare organizations to experience a breach at some point in time. As you will read, when healthcare organizations had a breach that caught them by surprise, they experienced significant reporting efforts and costly fines.
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