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A rehab facility posted a patient's recovery photo and story online to celebrate them. They had not agreed to it. Neither had the 149 patients before them. The bill arrived from the federal government.
Read more →He had just been told he was losing his job. Over the next three weeks he opened patient charts 323 times — celebrities, colleagues, his own supervisor. He became the first person in America to go to prison for it.
Read more →A mother asked a hospital for her unborn child's medical records and waited the better part of a year. The federal settlement that followed launched an enforcement wave aimed squarely at small practices.
Read more →A dental practice answered its Yelp reviews and ended up in a federal settlement. The way we tell that story is the whole reason CoolHIPAA exists.
Read more →HHS has proposed the biggest update to the HIPAA Security Rule in over a decade. Here's what's changing, why it matters, and how to get ahead of it before it lands.
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