Healthcare Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Virtual Privacy Officer and HIPAA Compliance Educator and National Speaker on Healthcare Privacy & Security
The Receptionist Who Cost a Health System $4.3 Million In 2023, OCR settled with Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital after discovering that 23 security guards
A billing coordinator at a mid-size orthopedic practice clicks a single portal link every morning. That one login gives her access to patient treatment records
A detective walks into your emergency department, flashes a badge, and asks for a patient's blood alcohol level. Your nurse looks at the
A Receptionist, a Waiting Room, and a $125,000 Fine A front desk employee at a medical clinic called out a patient's full
A $4.3 Million Mistake That Started With a Shared Folder In 2016, Advocate Health Care Network paid $5.55 million to settle HIPAA violations
A $4.75 Million Wake-Up Call Nobody Expected In 2021, a small community hospital in Mississippi opened a letter from the Office for Civil Rights.
The Certificate Hanging on the Wall Didn't Stop the $4.3 Million Fine In 2016, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
The Question That Trips Up Even Experienced Compliance Officers Last year, I watched a compliance officer at a mid-size hospital freeze during an audit when
Let me clear something up before you spend another minute searching: there is no official government-issued HIPAA certification. HHS doesn't certify individuals. OCR
A Fax Meant for a Cardiologist Ended Up at a Car Dealership I got the call on a Tuesday. A hospital's intake coordinator
There Is No Official Government-Issued HIPAA Certificate. That's Exactly the Problem. I watched a small cardiology practice in Tennessee hand over $125,000
Here's a detail that trips up almost everyone I train: people search "when was HIPPA established" — misspelling and all — and still
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