HIPAA compliance training resources and best practices for healthcare professionals
A nurse I worked with in 2019 had been in healthcare for 22 years. She documented patient vitals, coordinated referrals, handled insurance pre-authorizations. One day
A small dental practice in Indiana received a $12,000 penalty from the Office for Civil Rights in 2019. The owner told investigators he didn&
A Missing Signature Cost One Hospital $865,000 In 2019, a patient at a mid-size medical center in the Southeast requested her records be sent
A hospital in Texas once sent a spreadsheet of 3,400 patient records to a business associate — with every column of identifying data still intact.
A billing company in Tennessee lost $2.3 million because its leadership believed HIPAA was a hospital problem, not theirs. CHSPSC LLC, a management company
I once watched a hospital administrator spell it "HIPPA" on a staff memo — and nobody caught it for three weeks. It's
A mid-size pediatric health network migrated to a popular cloud platform in 2022. They configured the servers, encrypted the data at rest, and assumed they
A front-desk receptionist at a Florida orthopedic clinic looked up her ex-husband's new girlfriend in the EHR. She didn't download anything.
A $4.75 Million Wake-Up Call for Organizations That Thought They Were Covered In 2023, Banner Health paid $1.25 million to settle with OCR
A senator from Kansas and a senator from Massachusetts walked into a markup session in 1996 and changed healthcare forever. That's not the
The Missing Signature That Cost a Health System $4.3 Million In 2016, Advocate Health Care Network settled with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
Most people in healthcare think HIPAA is a privacy law. It is — but that's only one piece. The full statute contains five distinct
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