Healthcare workforce HIPAA training strategies and solutions
In February 2024, OCR announced a $4.75 million settlement with a nonprofit health system that failed to conduct an enterprise-wide risk analysis — leaving the
In 2023, OCR settled with a dental practice in New England for $50,000 after it disclosed patient records to a third-party marketing firm without
In 2022, a dental practice in New England received a corrective action from OCR after an employee discussed a patient's treatment plan loudly
In 2023, OCR settled with a dental practice for $350,000 after an investigation revealed the organization had disclosed patient records to a third-party marketing
A compliance officer at a mid-size clinic recently told me her staff believed that PHI must be protected in all forms except verbal conversations — that
In 2023, OCR settled with a dental practice for $350,000 after an investigation revealed the organization had been disclosing patient records to a marketing
In February 2023, OCR settled with a dental practice for $195,000 after investigators found the organization had no written policies implementing the HIPAA Privacy
In 2023, OCR settled with a dental practice for $350,000 after investigators found the organization had addressed its Privacy Rule obligations but had done
In January 2024, a medical receptionist in Texas discovered her supervisor was accessing patient records for personal reasons — looking up neighbors, family members, even local
In early 2024, OCR settled with a telehealth provider for $950,000 after an investigation revealed the organization had deployed a cloud-based therapy platform without
In December 2022, OCR issued a bulletin explicitly warning healthcare organizations about the use of tracking technologies on websites and mobile apps — including pixels from
When HHS announced in late 2024 that the COVID-era telehealth enforcement discretion would not be extended indefinitely, many healthcare organizations realized they had been operating
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