Working with Real Data comes at a Cost

When the Stanford contractor sent patient Data to a third part as an electronic spreadsheet, they violated the basic principals of the HIPAA regulations.



I'm still not sure why the contractor even had unencrypted data, I get Stanford is saying they gave it to them in a encrypted state but how did they un-encrypt the data? Stanford was clearly aware that the contractor was going to un-encrypt the data as it would have been useless unless Stanford provided a way to un-encrypt the data.

Why un-encrypt the data? there is no need to do that if they are using the correct encryption methods.

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