“Business associates who handle private patient information for healthcare organizations are largely unprepared to meet the new data breach related obligations included in the HITECH Act, according to a new survey.
Those affected include billing operations, credit bureaus, benefits management, legal services, claims processing, insurance brokers, data processing firms, pharmacy chains, accounting firms, temporary office personnel and offshore transcription vendors.”
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News, 17 November 2009
