What is Hiding on Your Copier: PHI?

Posted March 5, 2010 10:54 AM by Jack Anderson CEO Compliance Helper    

I recently had lunch with the folks from Digital Copier Security and what they had to say was eye opening for me and probably will be for you also.  What they pointed out is that since 2002 copiers, and other devices such as fax machines and printers, have all had hard drives installed.  They are storing images for everything that passes through them.  What is really alarming is the fact that most of these devices are on lease and when they go off lease are returned to the dealer, with all the PHI still sitting there unprotected.  Many of these older machines are store in unsecured warehouses until they are shipped to their new home.  Frequently their new home is in another country.

Go to www.copiersecurity.com for more information and tell them Jack sent you. ( I have always wanted to use that phrase)