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Morning Rounds: Our newsroom’s favorite stories of 2023

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That’s more than double recent counts, mostly spurred by a surge in hacking and ransomware attacks on health care groups regulated by HIPAA. As many as 116 million people were hit by large health data breaches this year, according to records from the HHS Office for Civil Rights as of December 21. Read the rest…

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