Are you protecting your patients' confidentiality?
Loss of personal privacy was the first or second concern listed of 29% of the respondents to a survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal and ABC.Computerization was seen as the most serious threat to medical privacy by 54% of surveyed adults.The 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability...
| Publicado en: | Nursing Economic$ Vol. 18; no. 6; pp. 294 - 299 |
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| Formato: | tables/charts Journal Article |
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Jannetti Publications, Inc.
Nov/Dec2000
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