HIPAA regulations, compliance requirements, and violation prevention
A mid-sized cardiology practice in the Southeast migrated their patient records to a popular cloud platform in 2021. They chose a reputable vendor. They assumed
Last year, a behavioral health clinic in Texas failed an OCR audit — not because they didn't have policies, but because their staff couldn&
A hospital employee in Texas forwards a patient's lab results to her personal Gmail account so she can "finish up charting at
72,000 Patients Found Out About Their Breach From the Evening News That's not a hypothetical. In 2023, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital discovered
A home health agency owner in Texas once told me, with total confidence, that HIPAA didn't apply to her because she wasn'
A radiology practice in Tennessee lost a single unencrypted laptop in 2014. That one device — left in a car overnight — exposed the protected health information
A Single Spreadsheet Took Down a $3 Million Settlement In 2018, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost an unencrypted laptop and two
A small dental practice in Georgia thought its biggest regulatory worry was the state dental board. Then a former patient filed a complaint about unauthorized
Here's something that won't surprise you: "hippaa law" is one of the most common misspellings in healthcare compliance. Thousands
A Nurse Called Me From Her Car — Here's What She Asked Last spring, a home health nurse called me from a parking lot.
A Single Fax Changed Everything for This Hospital In 2018, a hospital employee in Tennessee faxed a patient's psychiatric records to the wrong
One Search Query Can Reveal an Entire Compliance Gap Last month I watched a privacy officer type a single keyword into Google: "what happens
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