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A receptionist at a pediatric clinic prints a patient's immunization record and accidentally leaves it on the front counter for forty-five minutes. A
A pediatric clinic in Colorado lost $548,265 because their front desk staff didn't know that faxing PHI to the wrong number triggered
A Single Spreadsheet Cost This Hospital $4.3 Million In 2016, Advocate Health Care agreed to a $5.55 million settlement with OCR after breaches
A $4.75 Million Wake-Up Call That Started With a Checkbox In 2023, Banner Health paid $1.25 million to settle with OCR after investigators
A single misconfigured EHR server exposed the protected health information of 3.9 million patients at Advocate Medical Group — and cost the organization $5.55
That Text You Just Sent? It Probably Violated Federal Law A nurse at a mid-size cardiology practice texts the on-call physician: "Mrs. Rivera'
A $4.3 Million Mistake Started with One Misunderstood Spreadsheet In 2016, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost an unencrypted laptop and
A therapist in Ohio logs into a video platform, greets her patient, and starts a session about suicidal ideation. The session is encrypted in transit
A small dermatology practice in Connecticut thought they were HIPAA compliant because they had a privacy notice in the lobby and passwords on their computers.
A radiology technician at a hospital in New York forwarded a patient's imaging report to her personal Gmail account so she could "
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
A Single Spreadsheet Cost This Health Plan $6.85 Million In 2023, Premera Blue Cross agreed to a $6.85 million settlement with HHS after
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