Mark Sullivan reports:
A new report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) says that the U.S. Coast Guard holds plenty of personally identifiable health information in its servers but lacks a strong approach to dealing with privacy issues.
The report grew from a DHS audit that focused on practices and procedures for protecting the data of Coast Guard employees and on the service’s compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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