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PHI is retained for the period of time specified by Federal and California statute (10 years recommended). B. PHI may be retained for longer periods of time when required by law, when necessary to continuing patient care, or to meet longer retention periods stipulated for minors.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN. STEP 1: Remove the hard drive from your computer. STEP 2: Access the hard drive's platters and circuit board. STEP 3: Remove the read/write arm, and scratch the platters with a screwdriver to destroy data. STEP 4: Break the circuit board. STEP 5: Recycle the computer's components.

Most fax machines do not use a hard drive to process images. Instead, they use RAM (Random Access Memory) to store and process each job. Once a fax job is complete, the machine overwrites that job with the image from the next job.

It appears that most recommendations say 10 years are sufficient, unless you identify a reason to retain the records longer. Whatever you do, make sure you have proper security measures in place to protect the records indefinitely, and consult with your legal counsel on their recommendations.

Surprisingly, fax machines are still used routinely in many places. In fact, faxes were once at the forefront of communication technologies. Even today, it is regularly used by law enforcement agencies for bail postings or the deliver of public records.

Paper records should be destroyed/disposed of in a manner that leaves no possibility for reconstruction of information. Appropriate methods for destroying/disposing of paper records include: burning, shredding then cross shredding, pulping, and pulverizing.

Secure disposal is the process of rendering data unreadable by any means whether it's paper or electronic. Even while we are working at home, at the end of the useful life of any type of storage media from paper to computers, it is all of our responsibility to dispose of it properly.