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The Aventura HIPAA breach, identified in June last year, has resulted in a lawsuit being filed by a patient of the hospital, according to a Courthouse News Service report. The lawsuit was filed by Aventura patient, Kellie Lynn Case, in the Miami Federal Court. She is seeking damages from the defendants, Hospital Corporation of America…

A central Texas clinic, Lone Star Circle of Care of Georgetown, has learned that a backup file containing the personal information of 8,700 individuals has been available through the community health center’s website for a period of six months, during which time it was accessed on a number of occasions by unknown individuals. The file…

Technical Safeguards is the area where AXIS helps your organization’s HIPAA encryption requirements and become/stay compliant with the various HIPAA laws as mentioned below: ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION (A) – § 164.312(a)(2)(iv)  Where this implementation specification is a reasonable and appropriate safeguard for a covered entity, the covered entity must: “Implement a mechanism to encrypt and…