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A Law Nobody Read in 1996 Now Costs Organizations Millions When President Clinton signed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act on August 21, 1996,
The Provision That Built Modern Healthcare Compliance In 1996, a senator from Kansas and a senator from Massachusetts got a bill signed into law that
A hospital in Phoenix gets slapped with a $1.7 million penalty for failing to protect patient records. The year is 2023. But rewind two
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 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
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
A Single Unencrypted Laptop Changed Everything In 2017, a stolen laptop cost Lifespan Health System Affiliated Covered Entity (ACE) a $1,040,000 settlement with
A single missing risk assessment cost Premera Blue Cross $6.85 million in 2020. Not a breach of millions of records — though that happened too.
The One Document OCR Asks For First — Every Single Time I've been involved in over a hundred HIPAA readiness reviews. And I can
Most People Only Know Two of the Five Parts of HIPAA I was running a compliance workshop for a mid-size hospital system last year when
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