Pharmacy Podcast Network

HIPAA Breaches & Desk Audits What is a breach? In simple words, the loss of patient protected health information, either printed or electronic. How common are breaches within pharmacies? There are two types of pharmacies and pharmacy owners, The first are the ones who know they have had a breach The later are the ones who have had a breach and don’t know about it How can I have a breach and not know about it? Simple, has your pharmacy clerk ever given a patient another patient’s medication? That is a breach Can you give me examples of breaches? Pharmacy is robbed and the will call bin is stolen Pharmacy is robbed and the server is stolen Staff pharmacist has a laptop stolen Delivery driver has their vehicle stolen which is full of prescriptions to be delivered