Healthcare Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Virtual Privacy Officer and HIPAA Compliance Educator and National Speaker on Healthcare Privacy & Security
The Bloodborne Pathogen Report That Triggered a HIPAA Investigation A mid-sized hospital in the Midwest filed an OSHA incident report after a needle stick injury.
Most people in healthcare think HIPAA is a privacy law. It is — but that's only one piece. The full statute contains five distinct
A radiology practice in Tennessee got hit with a $3 million penalty because they let a former employee keep access to a cloud server holding
In February 2023, Banner Health paid $1.25 million to settle allegations that it failed to conduct an enterprise-wide risk analysis — a core requirement of
Last year, a compliance officer at a mid-size hospital system in Texas told me she'd spent $14,000 on a vendor's
The Statement That Trips Up Even Experienced Compliance Officers Here's a question I've watched rooms full of healthcare professionals get wrong:
Sexual harassment of healthcare workers is disturbingly common. Here's what your employer owes you — and why formal training is the absolute minimum.
A $4.75 Million Fine Started with a Single Stolen Laptop In 2014, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center paid a combined $4.
A hospital receptionist in Texas forwarded a patient's lab results to the wrong email address. It took fourteen seconds. The breach affected one
A receptionist at a pediatric clinic prints a patient's immunization record and accidentally leaves it on the front counter for forty-five minutes. A
A pediatric nonprofit in Idaho lost $387,200 because one employee — one — opened a phishing email and exposed the ePHI of 10,000 patients. When
A physician's office in Connecticut handed every new patient a single sheet of paper labeled "HIPAA Form" at the front desk.
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