HIPAA Compliance & Meaningful Use Tech Tips (part 2) - 4Medapproved HIT Security:
"While encryption is Addressable for HIPAA compliance, if you don’t have it and a device containing health information is lost or stolen, you must notify patients and report the loss to the federal government for an investigation. If a lost or stolen device is encrypted you do not have to notify patients or the government."
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