HIPAA compliance training resources and best practices for healthcare professionals
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
A radiology practice in Tennessee got hit with a $3 million penalty because they let a former employee keep access to a cloud server holding
In February 2023, Banner Health paid $1.25 million to settle allegations that it failed to conduct an enterprise-wide risk analysis — a core requirement of
Last year, a compliance officer at a mid-size hospital system in Texas told me she'd spent $14,000 on a vendor's
A $4.75 Million Fine Started with a Single Stolen Laptop In 2014, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center paid a combined $4.
A hospital receptionist in Texas forwarded a patient's lab results to the wrong email address. It took fourteen seconds. The breach affected one
A receptionist at a small cardiology practice in Arizona looked up her ex-husband's medical records one afternoon. She didn't share them.
A Therapist's Worst Nightmare Starts with a Fax Machine A licensed counselor in a mid-sized practice hit "send" on a fax
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