This article is written by Michael J. Sacopulos is the CEO of Medical Risk Institute (MRI) MRI seeks to reduce liability exposures faced by healthcare providers.

You may be playing a high tech game of Russian Roulette with your practice and not even know it. The past several years have seen a growth of claims against providers for the accidental release of patients' private health information. Whether a system is hacked by Eastern European criminals or a laptop is left on a metro train, the consequences for both patient and provider can be expensive. The days of warnings and remedial action plans have been replaced with a new era of fines and penalties for this privacy breaches.