Hospitals Should Scrutinize Portable Electronics

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<[stk -3]>In order to better safeguard protected data, hospitals need to have enterprise-wide programs in data information man­agement, but also need to help employees make certain any data-storage or trans­mission devices they use are HIPAA-com­pliant, Dr. Whelan said. <[etk]>

<[stk -3]>“Hospitalists should be involved in both policy development and process imple­mentation to assure that the benefits of electronic data storage are not lost in or­der to reduce the risk of HIPAA viola­tion,” he added.