HIPAA compliance training resources and best practices for healthcare professionals
A Missing Signature Cost One Health System $4.3 Million In 2016, Advocate Health Care Network agreed to pay $5.55 million to settle multiple
A front-desk employee at a pediatric clinic in Texas mentioned a patient's diagnosis to the child's school counselor over the phone.
A front-desk employee at a small cardiology practice in Arizona forwarded a patient's lab results to the wrong email address. One mistake. One
That 47-Page Policy Binder Gathering Dust on Your Shelf? OCR Doesn't Care About It Either. I once reviewed a sample HIPAA policy packet
You Searched "HIIPA Compliant" — Here's Why That Matters More Than You Think I see it in emails from clinic managers, in
A nurse in Tennessee pulls up her ex-husband's medical records out of curiosity. She doesn't share them. She doesn't
The Exam Room Where Two Federal Agencies Collided A medical assistant in a Texas urgent care clinic stuck herself with a contaminated needle in 2023.
A woman in Ohio once called the HHS Office for Civil Rights to file a complaint against her neighbor. The neighbor, she claimed, had told
A $4.75 Million Wake-Up Call That Most Providers Slept Through In February 2024, Montefiore Medical Center in New York agreed to a $4.75
A Single Law Turned HIPAA From a Suggestion Into a Sledgehammer In February 2009, most healthcare organizations treated HIPAA like a dusty policy binder on
A medical assistant at a cardiology practice in Texas forwarded a spreadsheet to her personal email so she could "finish some work at home.
In 2018, a small insurance company called Anthem paid $16 million to the Office for Civil Rights — the largest HIPAA settlement in history at that
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