HIPAA compliance training resources and best practices for healthcare professionals
A dental hygienist gets a needlestick injury. The office manager logs the incident in the OSHA Sharps Injury Log. Then she emails the details — including
The Inspection That Shut Down a Tuesday Morning A dental office in suburban Ohio lost an entire day of patients last year — not because of
President Bill Clinton picked up a pen on August 21, 1996, and signed a law that would eventually touch every doctor's office, hospital,
A Spreadsheet, a Social Security Number, and a $1.5 Million Settlement In 2018, Anthem Inc. paid $16 million to the Office for Civil Rights
The $4.3 Million Mistake That Started With a Vendor Contract In 2016, Advocate Medical Group paid $5.55 million to settle HIPAA violations — and
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
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