A collection of 56 posts
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
A small dermatology practice in Connecticut lost $150,000 in a single afternoon. Not from a lawsuit. Not from a bad investment. From a corrective
A pediatric clinic in Texas lost a single unencrypted laptop in 2017. That laptop contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 3,500 patients
A Single Fax Machine Cost One Health System $4.3 Million In 2023, Banner Health agreed to a $1.25 million settlement with the Office
A therapist in private practice once told me she didn't think HIPAA applied to her because she wasn't a hospital. A
A Single Misrouted Fax Cost This Clinic $125,000 A small physician practice in Tennessee faxed a patient's lab results to a local
A dermatology practice in New England paid $150,000 to the Office for Civil Rights because a single employee left a spreadsheet of patient names
A nurse in a small-town hospital pulls up her neighbor's medical chart to see if the rumors are true — her neighbor is pregnant.
A Funeral Home Called Me About a HIPAA Violation A few years ago, I got a call from an administrator at a mid-size hospital system.
A hospital receptionist in Texas called a patient's employer to confirm an upcoming surgery date. She thought she was being helpful. That single
Here's something that surprises almost everyone I train: HIPAA wasn't created to protect your medical records. Not originally. The law that
You typed "meaning of HIPPA" into Google. I know because thousands of people do it every single week. Here's the thing
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