A collection of 213 posts
A community health center in Georgia thought they were doing everything right. They had a privacy officer, a policies binder, and annual staff reminders about
Last year, a small chiropractic clinic in Indiana called me in a panic. They'd just received a letter from the Office for Civil
72,000 Patients Found Out About Their Breach From the Evening News That's not a hypothetical. In 2023, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital discovered
A home health agency owner in Texas once told me, with total confidence, that HIPAA didn't apply to her because she wasn'
Here's something that won't surprise you: "hippaa law" is one of the most common misspellings in healthcare compliance. Thousands
A $4.3 Million Penalty That Started with One Missing Rule In 2016, Advocate Health Care Network paid $5.55 million to settle HIPAA violations
A medical practice I consulted for once handed a box of patient records to a local shredding company. No contract. No Business Associate Agreement. No
A hospital in the Midwest fed three years of patient discharge summaries into a generative AI tool last year. The goal was noble — predict readmission
A Single Fax Changed Everything for This Clinic A dermatology practice in New England accidentally faxed a patient's lab results to a local
You're Spelling It Wrong — And That's the Least of Your Problems Every week, thousands of people search for "hippa policy.
A surgeon in Oklahoma texts a patient's lab results to the wrong phone number. Three weeks later, the patient's attorney files
One Misspelled Word That Tells Me Everything About Your Compliance Program I once walked into a medical office where every break room poster, every employee
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