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Last year, a nurse in Texas called me after her employer — a large hospital system — shared her psychiatric treatment records with her supervisor during a
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
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 $4.3 Million Settlement — and the Expert Who Made It Make Sense In 2014, the HHS Office for Civil Rights announced a $4.3
In 2018, a small five-physician cardiology practice in Arizona received a letter that changed everything. Attached was a $3.5 million settlement demand from a
A Missing Signature Cost One Health System $4.3 Million In 2016, Advocate Health Care Network agreed to pay $5.55 million to settle multiple
A $4.75 Million Wake-Up Call Nobody Expected In 2022, a single stolen laptop cost a health system millions. Not because the laptop was valuable
A Single Law Turned HIPAA From a Suggestion Into a Sledgehammer In February 2009, most healthcare organizations treated HIPAA like a dusty policy binder on
A major health system migrated its entire patient scheduling platform to the cloud in 2022. They picked a well-known vendor. They assumed the vendor "
A small clinic in Texas thought nobody was watching. They stored patient records on an unencrypted laptop, never trained their staff, and assumed their size
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&
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
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