HIPAA regulations, compliance requirements, and violation prevention
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 Single Missing Step Cost This Health System $4.3 Million In 2023, OCR announced a $4.3 million settlement with Lafourche Medical Group after
The Bloodborne Pathogen Report That Triggered a HIPAA Investigation A mid-sized hospital in the Midwest filed an OSHA incident report after a needle stick injury.
Most people in healthcare think HIPAA is a privacy law. It is — but that's only one piece. The full statute contains five distinct
A radiology practice in Tennessee got hit with a $3 million penalty because they let a former employee keep access to a cloud server holding
In February 2023, Banner Health paid $1.25 million to settle allegations that it failed to conduct an enterprise-wide risk analysis — a core requirement of
Last year, a compliance officer at a mid-size hospital system in Texas told me she'd spent $14,000 on a vendor's
A hospital receptionist in Texas forwarded a patient's lab results to the wrong email address. It took fourteen seconds. The breach affected one
A receptionist at a pediatric clinic prints a patient's immunization record and accidentally leaves it on the front counter for forty-five minutes. A
A physician's office in Connecticut handed every new patient a single sheet of paper labeled "HIPAA Form" at the front desk.
A Law Signed in 1996 That Didn't Really Bite Until Years Later Here's a question I get surprisingly often from compliance
One Shared Password Cost This Hospital $2.14 Million In 2018, a hospital employee used a colleague's login to access patient records for
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