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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
A hospital employee in South Carolina pulls up her ex-husband's medical record to see if he really went to that appointment he mentioned.
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