HIPAA regulations, compliance requirements, and violation prevention
The Clinic That Had 47 Policies and Zero Compliance Last year I walked into a mid-sized orthopedic practice that proudly handed me a three-ring binder.
The Part of HIPAA Nobody Talks About — Until It Costs Them In 2016, Advocate Health Care Network agreed to a $5.55 million settlement with
A small dental practice in Indiana received a $12,000 penalty from the Office for Civil Rights in 2019. The owner told investigators he didn&
A Missing Signature Cost One Hospital $865,000 In 2019, a patient at a mid-size medical center in the Southeast requested her records be sent
A hospital in Texas once sent a spreadsheet of 3,400 patient records to a business associate — with every column of identifying data still intact.
A billing company in Tennessee lost $2.3 million because its leadership believed HIPAA was a hospital problem, not theirs. CHSPSC LLC, a management company
A patient in the waiting room overhears a nurse call out another patient's name. A fax containing lab results lands on a shared
I once watched a hospital administrator spell it "HIPPA" on a staff memo — and nobody caught it for three weeks. It's
Your Chatbot Just Became a Liability A nurse pastes a patient's medication list into an AI chatbot to draft a care summary. It
A Receptionist, a Curiosity, and a $2.4 Million Problem In 2018, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost its appeal of a
A physician in South Florida refers every knee surgery patient to the same imaging center. In return, the imaging center pays him a monthly "
The HR Director Who Shared Too Much Last year, an HR director at a mid-sized manufacturing company forwarded an employee's medical leave documentation
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