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The Hurricane That Exposed More Than a Hospital's Roof In 2017, Hurricane Harvey flooded a major Texas hospital system. Staff scrambled to evacuate
A $4.3 Million Wake-Up Call Buried in an EHR Audit Log In 2023, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost its years-long
A $5.1 Million Penalty That Started with a Simple Question In 2017, Memorial Healthcare System in Florida agreed to pay $5.1 million to
A $4.75 Million Wake-Up Call That Started With One Unencrypted Laptop In 2014, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University paid a combined $4.8
A Fax Machine, a $4.75 Million Penalty, and Why HIPAA Still Catches Organizations Off Guard In 2020, a large health system called Premera Blue
A $5.1 Million Mistake Started with One Wrong Assumption In 2017, Memorial Healthcare System paid $5.1 million to settle with the Office for
In 2023, OCR settled with a dental practice in New England that had never conducted a risk analysis, never issued a Notice of Privacy Practices,
In February 2023, OCR settled with Banner Health for $1.25 million after a breach affecting over 2.81 million individuals exposed systemic failures in
In 2023, OCR settled with a dental practice in New England for $50,000 after a patient filed a complaint that the practice had disclosed
In 2023 alone, OCR settled or imposed civil money penalties in cases totaling over $4 million — and the majority involved failures that any organization with
When OCR issues a corrective action plan or levies a six-figure penalty, the enforcement letter doesn't reference some obscure regulation — it cites the
When HIPAA Law California Compliance Gets Complicated In 2023, a mid-sized California medical group discovered the hard way that complying with federal HIPAA rules wasn&
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