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The Clinic That Had 47 Policies and Zero Compliance Last year I walked into a mid-sized orthopedic practice that proudly handed me a three-ring binder.
A $4.3 Million Penalty Started With One Untrained Employee In 2019, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost its appeal of a
A hospital receptionist in Texas forwarded a patient's lab results to the wrong email address. It took fourteen seconds. The breach affected one
A pediatric nonprofit in Idaho lost $387,200 because one employee — one — opened a phishing email and exposed the ePHI of 10,000 patients. When
A receptionist at a cancer clinic in Florida forwarded a spreadsheet of 1,200 patient names, diagnoses, and Social Security numbers to her personal Gmail
The Penalty That Started With an Untrained Receptionist In 2018, Cottage Health paid $3 million to settle with HHS after a breach exposed over 62,
A radiology technician at a hospital in New York forwarded a patient's imaging report to her personal Gmail account so she could "
A receptionist at a dermatology clinic in New England forwarded a spreadsheet of 1,800 patient names and insurance IDs to her personal Gmail account.
A hospital in New York paid $4.8 million to settle HIPAA violations after a former employee — who had been terminated — still had active access
The Phone Call That Exposed a $1.7 Million Blind Spot A hospital safety officer called me three years ago, panicking. OSHA had requested employee
The CEO Who Learned HIPAA the Hard Way In 2018, the owner of a small health plan called Filefax agreed to pay $100,000 to
A receptionist at a dental clinic forwarded a spreadsheet of patient names, Social Security numbers, and insurance IDs to her personal Gmail account so she
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