HIPAA compliance training resources and best practices for healthcare professionals
A nurse texts a patient's lab results to a colleague using a personal phone. A receptionist confirms an appointment over the phone to
A home health aide I worked with once told me, "We're too small to be a covered entity." Her agency had
A Single Stolen Laptop Cost This Health System $3.9 Million In 2018, the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) settled with the Office for
A Receptionist, a Sticky Note, and a $1.5 Million Fine A front-desk employee at a specialty clinic jotted down a patient's name,
In February 2011, a health plan called Cignet Health of Prince George's County, Maryland received a $4.3 million civil monetary penalty from
A mental health counselor in private practice once told me she didn't need to worry about HIPAA because she wasn't a
In August 1996, President Bill Clinton signed a law that most people in healthcare couldn't even pronounce correctly. Thirty years later, that same
A hospital employee in Texas forwarded a patient's lab results to a family member who called and asked nicely. No written authorization. No
In 2018, a medical billing company called Advanced Care Hospitalists paid $500,000 to settle with OCR after a business associate it hired gained access
In February 2023, Banner Health agreed to pay $1.25 million to the Office for Civil Rights after a breach exposed the ePHI of nearly
A 22-employee cardiology practice in Tennessee paid $2.3 million to settle HIPAA violations in 2020 — and the root cause wasn't a sophisticated
Here's something that surprises most people in healthcare: HHS does not issue or endorse any official certification for HIPAA. There's no
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