HIPAA regulations, compliance requirements, and violation prevention
A compliance officer at a mid-size clinic recently told me her staff believed that PHI must be protected in all forms except verbal conversations — that
In 2023, OCR settled with a dental practice for $350,000 after an investigation revealed the organization had been disclosing patient records to a marketing
In February 2023, OCR settled with a dental practice for $195,000 after investigators found the organization had no written policies implementing the HIPAA Privacy
In 2023, OCR settled with a health system for $40,000 after it failed to provide a patient timely access to her own medical records
In 2023, OCR settled with a dental practice for $350,000 after investigators found the organization had addressed its Privacy Rule obligations but had done
In February 2011, Cignet Health of Prince George's County, Maryland, received a $4.3 million civil money penalty from the Office for Civil
In 2023, a mid-sized hospital system in the Midwest paid $125,000 to settle an OCR investigation after it disclosed patient records based on an
In 2023, OCR settled with a New England dermatology practice for $300,640 after the organization failed to provide a patient timely access to their
In January 2024, a medical receptionist in Texas discovered her supervisor was accessing patient records for personal reasons — looking up neighbors, family members, even local
In December 2022, OCR issued a bulletin explicitly warning healthcare organizations about the use of tracking technologies on websites and mobile apps — including pixels from
In 2016, OCR settled with North Memorial Health Care of Minnesota for $1.55 million after determining that a business associate had provided PHI access
In 2023, OCR settled with a health system for $1.3 million after investigators found the organization had failed to implement even basic access controls
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