Incidental Disclosure
Incidental Disclosure Examples: What Counts Under HIPAA
A patient in the waiting room overhears a nurse call out another patient's name. A fax containing lab results lands on a shared
Carl B. Johnson
Healthcare Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Virtual Privacy Officer and HIPAA Compliance Educator and National Speaker on Healthcare Privacy & Security
HIPAA Basics
HIPAA Is the Acronym For: What It Means in 2026
I once watched a hospital administrator spell it "HIPPA" on a staff memo — and nobody caught it for three weeks. It's
HIPAA AI Assistant
HIPAA AI Assistant: What Your Team Must Know in 2026
Your Chatbot Just Became a Liability A nurse pastes a patient's medication list into an AI chatbot to draft a care summary. It
HIPAA Need to Know
HIPAA Need to Know: The Rule That Prevents Most Breaches
A Receptionist, a Curiosity, and a $2.4 Million Problem In 2018, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost its appeal of a
HIPAA Cloud Compliance
HIPAA Cloud Compliance: What Most Orgs Get Wrong
A mid-size pediatric health network migrated to a popular cloud platform in 2022. They configured the servers, encrypted the data at rest, and assumed they
HIPAA Violation
HIPAA Violation in Healthcare: What Actually Triggers a Fine
A front-desk receptionist at a Florida orthopedic clinic looked up her ex-husband's new girlfriend in the EHR. She didn't download anything.
Anti-Kickback Statute
Anti-Kickback Statute Examples: Real Cases, Real Fines
A physician in South Florida refers every knee surgery patient to the same imaging center. In return, the imaging center pays him a monthly "
Employer HIPAA Violations
Employer HIPAA Violations: What Gets Companies Fined
The HR Director Who Shared Too Much Last year, an HR director at a mid-sized manufacturing company forwarded an employee's medical leave documentation
HIPAA Compliance Services
HIPAA Compliance Services: What You Actually Need
A $4.75 Million Wake-Up Call for Organizations That Thought They Were Covered In 2023, Banner Health paid $1.25 million to settle with OCR
HIPAA History
What Year Was HIPAA Passed? The Full Story Behind the Law
A senator from Kansas and a senator from Massachusetts walked into a markup session in 1996 and changed healthcare forever. That's not the
HIPAA Privacy Form
HIPPA Privacy Form: What You Actually Need in 2026
You're Searching for a "HIPPA Privacy Form" — Let's Fix That First Every week, thousands of people search for a
GLP-1
GLP-1 Privacy Nightmare: Why "My Healthcare Data Is Everywhere" Is About to Become a HIPAA Story
A friend texted me in all caps that her GLP weight loss data was everywhere. The HIPAA, FDA, and FTC implications behind the GLP-1 gold rush that every healthcare organization needs to understand—and why training your workforce can't wait.