Warning: Your physicians are strumming your compliance pain with their file-sharing fingers.
If HIPAA compliance is your business, you’ll want to note a new study pointing toward a disturbing trend: doctors risking patient’s personal health information (PHI) through file-sharing — typically without even knowing about it.
The study, conducted among U.S. IP addresses containing PHI and using file-sharing features, found that “search terms used in these file-sharing networks showed that a small percentage of the terms would return PHI … files.”
This “small percentage” actually translate into thousands of U.S. computers, meaning PHI is out there for the plucking if physicians aren’t careful.
“There are people successfully searching for … PHI on the peer-to-peer file-sharing networks,” according to the JAMIA study, “The inadvertent disclosure of personal health information through peer-to-peer file sharing program.”
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