mobile devices

According to American Medical News in the February 22 edition of their newspaper, one-third of health professionals store patient data on laptops, smartphones and USB memory sticks and only 39% of health care organizations encrypt data on mobile devices. Provisions in the federal stimulus package have tightened HIPAA notification and enforcement regulations and have made HIPAA violations more costly. For example, the maximum civil penalty from the Dept. of Health and Human Services for a...