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Proactive Data Risk Management

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n a medical environment heavily concerned with malpractice and insurance issues, high-profile data breaches have created another vital concern for the industry. But data breaches are not always intentional. Many times, simple safeguards and practices can protect private information from being breached.

Legislation such as HIPAA, Graham-Leach-Bliley, Sarbanes-Oxley and the California Civil Code section 1798 echo the severity of data breaches and provide initial guidelines to protect personal health information (PHI), credit card information, Social Security numbers, driver's license information, addresses and confidential data stored by third parties.

Cases of identity theft can cause an organization to incur large legal expenses and tarnish practitioners' and facilities' reputations. As such, management teams need to impart safeguards for data breach prevention and mitigation as a core risk management activity.

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