In a featured story by AISHealth.com, we see that the California Department of Public Health recently issued the maximum penalty to Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center for their failure to prevent unauthorized access to patient information.

This decision may reflect how things may be beginning to change under the HITECH Act provisions included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Do you agree with the CDPH decision?

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