Foundational HIPAA concepts and definitions
A nurse I worked with in 2019 had been in healthcare for 22 years. She documented patient vitals, coordinated referrals, handled insurance pre-authorizations. One day
A $4.3 Million Penalty Started With One Untrained Employee In 2019, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost its appeal of a
I once watched a hospital administrator spell it "HIPPA" on a staff memo — and nobody caught it for three weeks. It's
A senator from Kansas and a senator from Massachusetts walked into a markup session in 1996 and changed healthcare forever. That's not the
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 receptionist at a small cardiology practice in Arizona looked up her ex-husband's medical records one afternoon. She didn't share them.
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 hospital employee in Texas once forwarded a patient's lab results to her personal Gmail account so she could "finish charting at
A $4.3 Million Fine Started with a Missing Definition In 2016, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost three unencrypted devices containing
I once watched a hospital administrator spell it "HIPPA" on a slide deck in front of 200 employees. Nobody corrected her. That moment
A Single Unencrypted Laptop Changed Everything In 2017, a stolen laptop cost Lifespan Health System Affiliated Covered Entity (ACE) a $1,040,000 settlement with
Last year, a solo-practice dermatologist in Connecticut called me in a panic. She'd just received a letter from the Office for Civil Rights
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