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A cloud storage vendor loses a laptop containing 20,000 patient records. The hospital that hired them gets the breach notification letter. The vendor insists
I once watched a hospital administrator spell it "HIPPA" on a slide deck in front of 200 employees. Nobody corrected her. That moment
Last year, a practice manager in Ohio told me she'd had her entire staff complete an online HIPAA certification she found through a
A front desk coordinator at a three-dentist practice in North Carolina handed a patient the wrong checkout summary. Attached to it was another patient'
Last year, I watched a three-physician practice in the Midwest spend eleven months fighting an OCR investigation — without a lawyer for the first four. By
Every week, thousands of people type "hippa class" into Google. I know because I've watched the search data for years. Here&
A dermatology practice in New England paid a vendor $4,000 for a "comprehensive HIPAA risk assessment." What they got back was a
The Referral Fee That Cost a Hospital System $260 Million In 2023, a Tennessee-based hospital operator agreed to pay $260 million to resolve allegations that
A hospital in Texas fired a records clerk in 2023 after she accessed the medical files of 14 patients she had no clinical reason to
A single missing risk assessment cost Premera Blue Cross $6.85 million in 2020. Not a breach of millions of records — though that happened too.
Last month, a clinic administrator told me she'd hired a new medical assistant who was "HIPAA certified." She said it with
A $4.7 Billion Problem Hiding in Your Organization's Blind Spots In 2023, the Department of Justice recovered over $2.68 billion in
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