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A hospital employee in Texas once forwarded a patient's lab results to her personal Gmail account so she could "finish charting at
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May 16, 2026
A $4.3 Million Fine Started with a Missing Definition In 2016, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost three unencrypted devices containing
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May 15, 2026
The Hurricane That Exposed a Hospital's HIPAA Blind Spot In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, hospitals across the Gulf Coast scrambled to reunite
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May 15, 2026
A receptionist at a cancer clinic in Florida forwarded a spreadsheet of 1,200 patient names, diagnoses, and Social Security numbers to her personal Gmail
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May 15, 2026
A small dermatology practice in Connecticut thought they had HIPAA covered. They had a privacy notice on their website and a shredder in the back
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May 14, 2026
The Penalty That Started With an Untrained Receptionist In 2018, Cottage Health paid $3 million to settle with HHS after a breach exposed over 62,
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May 14, 2026
The Acronym Mix-Up That Can Cost Your Organization Millions Last year, I was leading a workforce training session at a mid-sized hospital system in Ohio
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May 13, 2026
A radiology technician at a hospital in New York forwarded a patient's imaging report to her personal Gmail account so she could "
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May 13, 2026
A cloud storage vendor loses a laptop containing 20,000 patient records. The hospital that hired them gets the breach notification letter. The vendor insists
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May 12, 2026
I once watched a hospital administrator spell it "HIPPA" on a slide deck in front of 200 employees. Nobody corrected her. That moment
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May 12, 2026
Last year, a practice manager in Ohio told me she'd had her entire staff complete an online HIPAA certification she found through a
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May 11, 2026
A physician in Texas billed Medicare for over 5,000 hours of home health services in a single year. That's roughly 14 hours
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May 11, 2026
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