Encryption of mobile device technology has become essential in the eyes of the OCR. Although HIPAA treats encryption as an “addressable” safeguard –as opposed to a “required” safeguard— under the Security Rule, the following OCR settlements involving unencrypted mobile devices indicate that encryption is obligatory for HIPAA compliance. As new technologies emerge and the use […]
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