A collection of 41 posts
The $4.3 Million Mistake That Started With One Wrong Assumption In 2016, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost three unencrypted devices
A hospital in Louisiana lost $480,000 because a single employee snooped through a patient's medical record out of curiosity. Not a hacker.
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 receptionist at a cancer clinic in Florida forwarded a spreadsheet of 1,200 patient names, diagnoses, and Social Security numbers to her personal Gmail
A gym owner in Texas once told me, straight-faced, that his business was HIPAA exempt because he wasn't a doctor. He collected health
A $16 Million Wake-Up Call That Traces Back to 1996 In 2018, Anthem Inc. wrote a check to the U.S. Department of Health and
A Single Misunderstood Term Cost This Health Plan $6.85 Million In 2018, Premera Blue Cross agreed to pay $6.85 million to settle HIPAA
A Receptionist, a Fax Machine, and a $1.5 Million Fine A few years ago, I consulted with a specialty clinic where a front-desk employee
Here's something that surprises most people in healthcare: the law they cite every single day — HIPAA — has five distinct sections, and the vast
A personal trainer asks a client about her recent knee surgery. A school nurse hands a student's immunization record to a teacher. A
The Form That Stops Lawsuits — or Starts Them A surgeon's office in Texas faxed a patient's psychiatric records to an employer.
A hospital in New York paid $4.8 million to settle HIPAA violations after a former employee — who had been terminated — still had active access
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