CASE STUDY CHALLENGE Thomas Eye Group is a full-service eye care services provider. With eight offices around the Metro Atlanta area, the staff work with, and care for, thousands of peepers each year, accumulating a great deal of confidential patient information. “There was a minor network breach that affected our group,” says Brittany Hague, Health Information Manager/Privacy Officer for Thomas Eye Group. “Luckily, it didn’t result in anything going awry, but it did catch our attention and made us realize we needed to tighten up our security.” Not only did they view this as an opportunity to further protect patient data, they also saw it as a chance to retrain themselves on HIPAA best practices and put in place more formal security policies. After discussing it with their IT con

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