5 questions about HIPAA ’s double whammy - ransomware and health care data

What is worse than having an intruder invade your computer system and maliciously encrypt your patient ’s health care records rendering them completely inaccessible to you on your own system? And then spending thousands of dollars and hundreds of man-hours to respond to the attack and recover your data, only to have to defend yourself again from an enforcement action under the Health Insurance Por tability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,…
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