Healthcare Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Virtual Privacy Officer and HIPAA Compliance Educator and National Speaker on Healthcare Privacy & Security
A hospital employee in South Carolina pulls up her ex-husband's medical record to see if he really went to that appointment he mentioned.
The Server Room Where $4.3 Million Disappeared In 2023, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost a Supreme Court appeal after OCR
A hospital receptionist in Texas once emailed a spreadsheet of 800 patient names, birth dates, and insurance IDs to the wrong clinic. Within 72 hours,
Day One Is Where Most Breaches Start Last year, I worked with a pediatric clinic in Ohio that had been running for eleven years without
Last month, a medical assistant at a mid-size dermatology practice told me she'd been on the job for six weeks before anyone mentioned
Every week, thousands of people type "hiipa meaning" into Google. I know because I watch the search data. Here's what'
A medical billing company in Tennessee exposed the records of 300,000 patients — and the hospital that hired them paid the price. Not because the
A Single Phone Number Cost This Health Plan $6.85 Million In 2018, Premera Blue Cross agreed to pay $6.85 million to the Office
A Nurse in Tennessee Got Four Years in Federal Prison In 2022, a former employee of a Tennessee medical clinic was sentenced to federal prison
The Vendor That Cost a Health Plan $4.3 Million In 2016, Advocate Health Care Network agreed to pay $5.55 million to settle multiple
Last year, a 14-person physical therapy clinic in the Midwest got hit with a corrective action plan after a random OCR audit. The finding? Their
A receptionist at a New York City dental clinic mentioned a patient's upcoming root canal to the patient's coworker — casually, in
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