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Database System Concepts

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In 2014, 4.5 million medical records, including mental health records, were hacked from Community Health Systems (CHS) (Pagliery, 2014). Although CHS thought they had a secure system, they found out otherwise and due to HIPAA, individuals could now sue CHS for breach of information. What would you do to ensure the safety of client records?

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Generally, a data breach is an illegal disclosure or use of information without authorization. The United States Department of Health and Human Services defines a data breach as “the illegal use or disclosure of confidential health information that compromises the privacy or security of it under the privacy rule that poses a sufficient risk of financial, reputational, or other type of harm to the affected person” .

The HIPAA definition of a data breach is “the procurement, access, use or expose of confidential health information illegitimately, which compromises the privacy or security of that confidential health information”.

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