Certification for HIPAA: What Actually Matters in 2026
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
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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
A single front-desk employee at a South Carolina medical practice printed a patient's billing record and handed it to the patient's
Last month, a practice manager in Atlanta called me in a panic. Her new employer had demanded she produce a "HIPAA certification" within
Last year, a medical office manager in Ohio told me she'd purchased a bundled "HIPAA and OSHA certification online" package for
A small pediatric clinic in Colorado thought they had HIPAA handled. They'd trained their staff once — back in 2014. When OCR came knocking
A medical practice in New York thought they'd saved money by pulling together a makeshift HIPAA training for employees from scattered online resources
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 $4.3 Million Fine That Started with Untrained Staff In 2015, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost three unencrypted devices containing
That Google Search Could Cost You More Than You Saved I watched a 14-person cardiology practice in Texas get hit with a $160,000 settlement
A $4.3 Million Wake-Up Call That Started with Untrained Staff In 2023, the University of Washington Medicine agreed to a $750,000 settlement with
In 2023, a mid-sized dental practice in Texas was hit with two separate enforcement actions within the same quarter — one from OSHA for failing to
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