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A phlebotomist at a mid-size clinic in Ohio accidentally stuck herself with a used needle in 2023. Within minutes, the exposure protocol kicked in — testing,
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 cardiologist's office in New York paid $100,000 to settle with OCR after a single employee left PHI visible on a computer
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 $4.3 Million Settlement Started with One Untrained Employee In 2016, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost an unencrypted laptop and
The Phone Call That Starts With "We're From the Government" A medical practice in Texas gets two letters in the same
The Google Search That Preceded a $2.3 Million Penalty Somewhere in a small cardiology practice in 2018, an office manager typed "HIPAA online
A small pediatric clinic in Colorado thought they had HIPAA handled. They'd trained their staff once — back in 2014. When OCR came knocking
The Spreadsheet That Cost a Health System $4.3 Million In 2023, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital settled with OCR for $240,000 after 23 security
A $4.3 Million Wake-Up Call in a Hospital Basement In 2016, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost an unencrypted USB drive
In January 2013, HHS dropped the largest single regulatory update in HIPAA's history — and most organizations still haven't fully absorbed what
A hospital executive stared at a $4.3 million settlement notice and realized the breach could have been prevented with a single encrypted laptop. That&
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