HIPAA Compliance Crackdown: Encrypt Your Data or Else

If your business is subject to HIPAA regulations, several recent events should make you reevaluate your data security measures. Two companies, Concentra Health Service and QCA Health Plan, were fined $1.7 million and $250,000, respectively, for failure to encrypt computers containing protected health information. In both cases, the laptop computers were stolen, highlighting the importance …