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The Question That Catches Most Compliance Officers Off Guard A hospital system I worked with had 14,000 employees. Their HIPAA training program covered about
Most People Only Know Half the Story Ask ten healthcare workers what HIPAA is about, and nine of them will say "patient privacy."
A hospital employee in South Carolina pulled up her ex-husband's medical records out of curiosity. No malicious intent. No financial motive. Just a
A Single Text Cost This Health System $3 Million In 2018, the University of Rochester Medical Center agreed to a $3 million settlement with OCR
A physician's office in Texas left a box of patient records next to a dumpster in 2019. Someone took a photo, posted it
A $16 Million Wake-Up Call That Traces Back to 1996 In 2018, Anthem Inc. wrote a check to the U.S. Department of Health and
A Nurse, a Hallway, and a $4.75 Million Settlement In 2021, a major health system paid $4.75 million to settle allegations from the
A small dental practice in Georgia gets hit with a $70,000 penalty because a front-desk employee left a box of patient files on a
In 2018, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost a $4.3 million appeal after OCR found that the organization had policies on
A few years ago, I got a call from the office manager of a chiropractic clinic in Texas. She was panicking. They'd just
A receptionist at a small orthopedic clinic in Arizona clicked "Reply All" to an email containing 836 patient records. The breach triggered an
A home health agency in Texas got hit with two separate federal investigations in the same quarter — one from OSHA for failing to maintain a
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