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A $4.3 Million Mistake That Started With a Shared Folder In 2016, Advocate Health Care Network paid $5.55 million to settle HIPAA violations
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 $4.3 Million Penalty That Started with One Missing Rule In 2016, Advocate Health Care Network paid $5.55 million to settle HIPAA violations
It's HIPAA, Not HIPPA — And That Mistake Tells Me Everything I can tell how far along an organization is in its compliance journey
When Congress passed HIPAA in 1996, the law was barely about privacy at all. It was a health insurance portability bill — designed to help people
In 2018, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost a Supreme Court appeal and got stuck with a $4.3 million penalty — all
A $4.75 Million Fine Started with One Missing Risk Analysis In 2023, Banner Health agreed to a $1.25 million settlement with OCR after
A small dermatology practice in Massachusetts lost an unencrypted thumb drive in 2019. It contained the ePHI of 2,200 patients. When HHS investigated, they
A Single Provision That Changed American Healthcare Forever In 1996, a bill signed into law quietly rewired how every hospital, insurer, and physician practice in
August 21, 1996 — The Day Most People Get Wrong Ask a room full of compliance officers about the HIPAA start date, and you'll
I was reviewing a dental practice's risk analysis last year when the office manager pointed at a paper chart and asked, "This
A $4.3 Million Penalty Started With One Missing Safeguard In 2016, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost three unencrypted devices containing
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