HIPAA compliance training resources and best practices for healthcare professionals
A Single Provision That Changed American Healthcare Forever In 1996, a bill signed into law quietly rewired how every hospital, insurer, and physician practice in
A hospital billing clerk copies a spreadsheet of patient names, Social Security numbers, and diagnosis codes onto a USB drive to finish work at home.
August 21, 1996 — The Day Most People Get Wrong Ask a room full of compliance officers about the HIPAA start date, and you'll
A Single Fax Machine Cost One Health System $4.3 Million In 2023, Banner Health agreed to a $1.25 million settlement with the Office
A Filing Cabinet Almost Cost This Clinic $150,000 A few years ago, I consulted with a small orthopedic clinic in the Midwest that had
It's the Most Misspelled Acronym in Healthcare — And Most People Get the Meaning Wrong Too I once sat in a compliance meeting where
Not Everything Is a Violation — But Most People Don't Know Where the Line Is A nurse at a mid-size hospital once told me
I was reviewing a dental practice's risk analysis last year when the office manager pointed at a paper chart and asked, "This
In 2018, a Texas cancer center paid $4.3 million to HHS after two unencrypted devices containing ePHI went missing. The root cause wasn'
A therapist in private practice once told me she didn't think HIPAA applied to her because she wasn't a hospital. A
A nurse at a small dermatology practice in Connecticut posted a selfie on Instagram. In the background, a patient's intake form sat on
A $4.3 Million Penalty Started With One Missing Safeguard In 2016, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost three unencrypted devices containing
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