HIPAA regulations, compliance requirements, and violation prevention
A Question That Costs Organizations Millions Every Year I got a call last year from a medical billing company owner who was convinced HIPAA didn&
On August 21, 1996, President Bill Clinton picked up a pen and signed a law that most people in healthcare wouldn't feel the
In 2018, a small insurance company called Anthem paid $16 million to the Office for Civil Rights — the largest HIPAA settlement in history at that
A Stack of Unsigned Forms Doesn't Mean You're Compliant I walked into a pediatric clinic last year and asked to see
In 2018, a small Texas health system called MD Anderson Cancer Center lost three unencrypted devices containing patient records. The result? A $4.3 million
A Telehealth Startup's $1.5 Million Wake-Up Call In 2023, a mental health telehealth company called Cerebral agreed to a $7.1 million
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
In 2018, a small Texas health plan paid $100,000 to settle HIPAA violations after a breach involving fewer than 500 individuals. The organization'
A Receptionist, a Celebrity, and a $4.3 Million Fine In 2019, the University of Rochester Medical Center paid $3 million to settle with OCR
A patient walks into your front office and asks for a list of everyone you've shared their medical records with over the past
Every single week, someone walks into a clinic, a law office, or an HR department and asks for a "hippa release form." I&
A Single Fax Changed Everything for This Clinic A dermatology practice in New England accidentally faxed a patient's lab results to a local
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