Healthcare

Healthcare

The requirements and obligations regarding the collection, maintenance, and eventual destruction of personal and confidential information are significant. The loss or mishandling of any of that information can result in fines, penalties, and even the loss of license.

Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA – 1996)

  •  requires that covered entities put in place administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect the privacy of protected health information.
  • One example given of a safeguard for the proper disposal of paper documents containing protected health information is that the documents be shredded prior to disposal.