HIPAA compliance training resources and best practices for healthcare professionals
One Misspelled Word That Tells Me Everything About Your Compliance Program I once walked into a medical office where every break room poster, every employee
A small dermatology practice in Connecticut lost $150,000 in a single afternoon. Not from a lawsuit. Not from a bad investment. From a corrective
A Spreadsheet That Cost $6.85 Million In 2018, Premera Blue Cross agreed to pay $6.85 million to the Office for Civil Rights after
A midsize hospital in Oklahoma thought they had it covered. Policies were printed. The IT team had installed encryption software. A training session happened once
A Missing Signature Cost One Hospital $865,000 In 2019, a patient filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights after a hospital released
Let me save you some trouble: the forms you're searching for when you type "hippa forms" are actually called HIPAA forms
A Receptionist's Casual Comment Cost a Hospital $4.3 Million In 2019, the University of Rochester Medical Center agreed to pay $3 million
The Compliance Officer Who Thought a YouTube Video Was Enough I once consulted for a mid-size home health agency in Florida that had been using
A hospital employee in Texas looks up her ex-husband's medical records after a bitter custody dispute. A small clinic in Georgia stores patient
A pediatric clinic in Texas lost a single unencrypted laptop in 2017. That laptop contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 3,500 patients
A pharmaceutical rep takes a physician out to a $400 dinner. A device manufacturer flies a surgeon to a weekend "training" at a
A cardiologist in South Florida receives a $500 payment every time he refers a patient to a specific imaging center. A home health agency gives
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