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The Spreadsheet That Cost a Health System $5.1 Million In 2017, Memorial Healthcare System paid $5.1 million to HHS after employees accessed the
A single unencrypted laptop stolen from a parked car cost Concentra Health Services $1,725,220. The laptop contained patient names, dates of birth, Social
The Vendor That Cost a Health System $4.3 Million In 2016, Advocate Health Care agreed to pay $5.55 million to HHS after multiple
In 2018, a medical records company called Advanced Care Hospitalists paid $500,000 to settle HIPAA violations after a billing services contractor gained access to
A medical practice in New York thought they'd saved money by pulling together a makeshift HIPAA training for employees from scattered online resources
A hospital receptionist in Texas emails a patient's lab results to the wrong address. Within 48 hours, that patient's HIV status
The Spreadsheet That Cost a Health System $4.3 Million In 2023, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital settled with OCR for $240,000 after 23 security
A small cardiology practice in Oklahoma didn't think twice about faxing patient records to the wrong number. It happened once. Then twice. Then
The Provision That Built Modern Healthcare Compliance In 1996, a senator from Kansas and a senator from Massachusetts got a bill signed into law that
A $4.3 Million Wake-Up Call in a Hospital Basement In 2016, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost an unencrypted USB drive
A few years ago, I got a call from the owner of a small billing company in Ohio. She was convinced HIPAA didn't
In January 2013, HHS dropped the largest single regulatory update in HIPAA's history — and most organizations still haven't fully absorbed what
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