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Patient health Information is a privacy concern where confidentiality should be maintained. This is actually a breach according to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act(HIPAA).
Hospital has to have safety environment that should avoid thefts.If not all the privacy data gets stolen.
Patients may loose confidence on Health Care personnel and also the hospitals which leads the loss of Hospitals.
Any practices of breach or theft leads to compensation both economically and legally.
Also patients may hide some of the sensitive information from hospitals due to lack of confidence on safety maintenance though it is useful in treating them.
People who theft patient information may use their social security numbers, addresses, Medicare policy numbers which further puts Hospitals or Health Care professionals in a risk.
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