ANALYSIS: What Your Staff Doesn’t Know About HIPAA Can Kill You

In a world where HIPAA threats range from high-tech ransomware attacks to stacks of records tossed in the wrong dumpster, HIPAA-covered organizations must understand that their workforces are the first line of defense against a breach—and their biggest HIPAA liability.

No matter how sophisticated an organization’s technology infrastructure is and regardless of how many well-drafted policies are in place, all it takes is one careless employee to cause a major breach. Leadership’s failure to create a culture of HIPAA awareness and compliance can make an eminently preventable breach of protected health information (PHI) an inevitability.

Bloomberg Law analyzed data breaches ...