California Flooded with Health Breach Reports Under New Law

California officials have received more than 800 reports of health data breaches in five months after a new state law went into effect January 1. The law requires healthcare organizations in California to report suspected incidents of intentional and unintentional unauthorized breaches of a patient’s personally identifiable health information to the California Department of Public Health. The agency, however, says it was surprised by the large number of reports it received in such a short period, according to the Journal of the American Health Information Management Association , and expect that number to increase dramatically.

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California Flooded with Health Breach Reports Under New Law

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