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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 pediatric nonprofit in Idaho lost $387,200 because one employee — one — opened a phishing email and exposed the ePHI of 10,000 patients. When
A Law Signed in 1996 That Didn't Really Bite Until Years Later Here's a question I get surprisingly often from compliance
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
It's HIPAA, Not HIPPA — and It's Older Than You Think I get this question more than almost any other: when was
A pediatric clinic in Colorado lost $548,265 because their front desk staff didn't know that faxing PHI to the wrong number triggered
A $4.75 Million Wake-Up Call That Should Have Changed Everything In February 2017, Memorial Healthcare System paid $5.5 million to the U.S.
A $4.3 Million Wake-Up Call You Can Trace Back to Five Words In 2016, Advocate Health Care Network paid $5.55 million to settle
A personal trainer once told me she couldn't share a client's weight-loss results on Instagram because of HIPAA. A landlord told
The Typo That Reveals a Bigger Problem Every month, thousands of people search for a "hippa course." I know because I watch the
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