A collection of 250 posts
A small dental practice in Indiana received a $12,000 penalty from the Office for Civil Rights in 2019. The owner told investigators he didn&
A billing company in Tennessee lost $2.3 million because its leadership believed HIPAA was a hospital problem, not theirs. CHSPSC LLC, a management company
A $4.3 Million Penalty Started With One Untrained Employee In 2019, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost its appeal of a
I once watched a hospital administrator spell it "HIPPA" on a staff memo — and nobody caught it for three weeks. It's
A front-desk receptionist at a Florida orthopedic clinic looked up her ex-husband's new girlfriend in the EHR. She didn't download anything.
A physician in South Florida refers every knee surgery patient to the same imaging center. In return, the imaging center pays him a monthly "
The HR Director Who Shared Too Much Last year, an HR director at a mid-sized manufacturing company forwarded an employee's medical leave documentation
A $4.75 Million Wake-Up Call for Organizations That Thought They Were Covered In 2023, Banner Health paid $1.25 million to settle with OCR
A senator from Kansas and a senator from Massachusetts walked into a markup session in 1996 and changed healthcare forever. That's not the
You're Searching for a "HIPPA Privacy Form" — Let's Fix That First Every week, thousands of people search for a
A friend texted me in all caps that her GLP weight loss data was everywhere. The HIPAA, FDA, and FTC implications behind the GLP-1 gold rush that every healthcare organization needs to understand—and why training your workforce can't wait.
The Missing Signature That Cost a Health System $4.3 Million In 2016, Advocate Health Care Network settled with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
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