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A Therapist's Worst Nightmare Started With a Default Password In 2022, a mid-sized behavioral health practice in the Southeast discovered that session notes
Here's something that surprises most people in healthcare: HHS does not issue or endorse any official certification for HIPAA. There's no
Last year I got a call from the owner of a medical billing company in Ohio. She'd just received a letter from the
A pediatric clinic in Idaho had a binder on the shelf labeled "HIPAA Compliance Plan." It was printed in 2017, never updated, and
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
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