Protected Health Information can easily be accessed by an unauthorized personnel if a document is left in a photocopier after copies have been made; however digital photocopiers can expose the personal health data of hundreds of thousands of people. When copies of...
A New York identity thief who stole the medical information of almost 1000 patients and committed $10.7 million in Medicare fraud has been found guilty of HIPAA violations by a New York federal court and given a 12-year sentence in a federal penitentiary. Over a...
