HIPAA Compliance During Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions
HIPAA Compliance During Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions When two healthcare organizations combine, the riskiest asset on the balance sheet is often the one no one prices: protected health information (PHI). A merger or acquisition moves patient records, breach history, and compliance liabilities from one entity to another — and HIPAA follows the data. Getting HIPAA […]
HIPAA Compliance for Fertility Clinics and Reproductive Health Providers
HIPAA Compliance for Fertility Clinics and Reproductive Health Providers Fertility clinics hold some of the most sensitive protected health information (PHI) in all of healthcare. A single IVF cycle can generate genetic test results, embryology lab records, donor identities, detailed reproductive and sexual histories, and information about more than one person at once. That combination […]
HIPAA Compliance for Podiatry Practices
HIPAA Compliance for Podiatry Practices Podiatry sits in an awkward spot for HIPAA compliance: the practices are usually small, but the data they handle is unusually visual and unusually mobile. A typical podiatry encounter generates clinical photographs of wounds and deformities, diagnostic imaging, and detailed records tied to chronic conditions like diabetes and peripheral vascular […]
HIPAA Compliance for Small Medical Practices in 2026: What Actually Fits a 1–10 Provider Clinic
HIPAA Compliance for Small Medical Practices in 2026: What Actually Fits a 1–10 Provider Clinic May 2026 Update: What’s changed for small medical practices this spring The compliance landscape for small practices shifted in three concrete ways in spring 2026: The 2026 HIPAA Security Rule proposed updates moved through OCR’s comment period. The proposed encryption-everywhere, […]
HIPAA Penalties and Fines 2026: Updated Enforcement Guide
HIPAA Penalties and Fines 2026: Updated Enforcement Guide Quick answer: HIPAA penalties fall into a four-tier civil structure based on culpability, plus criminal penalties for knowing misuse of protected health information (PHI). The statutory civil range runs from roughly $100 to $50,000 per violation, with annual caps for repeated identical violations — and the exact […]
HIPAA Security Risk Assessment Template: What a Good One Includes
HIPAA Security Risk Assessment Template: What a Good One Includes A HIPAA Security Risk Assessment (SRA) template can be a useful starting point, but it is important to understand what a template can and cannot do. The HIPAA Security Rule requires an accurate and thorough assessment of the risks to electronic protected health information (ePHI) […]
HIPAA Compliance for Pain Management Clinics: Controlled Substance Protocols
HIPAA Compliance for Pain Management Clinics: Controlled Substance Protocols Pain management clinics handle a category of data that few other specialties touch in the same volume: detailed records of controlled-substance prescribing, prescription monitoring queries, and drug-screening results. That combination makes pain management one of the higher-risk environments for a HIPAA program, because the information is […]
HIPAA Compliance for Medical Devices: IoT and Connected Health Security
HIPAA Compliance for Medical Devices: IoT and Connected Health Security Connected medical devices — infusion pumps, patient monitors, imaging systems, smart beds, and a growing fleet of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors — have quietly become one of the hardest HIPAA problems in healthcare. Many of them create, store, or transmit electronic protected health information […]
Healthcare Data Breach Prevention: 12 Essential Security Measures
Healthcare Data Breach Prevention: 12 Essential Security Measures Healthcare is the most-breached industry in the United States, and the uncomfortable truth is that the large majority of reported breaches are preventable. They rarely come from exotic zero-day attacks. They come from a stolen unencrypted laptop, a staff member clicking a phishing email, a misconfigured cloud […]
HIPAA Employee Termination Checklist: Protecting PHI When Staff Leave
HIPAA Employee Termination Checklist: Protecting PHI When Staff Leave Employee offboarding is where HIPAA compliance is quietly won or lost. Most security programs pour attention into onboarding, granting access, training new hires, signing confidentiality agreements, and treat departures as an HR formality. But the moment a workforce member leaves is precisely when the risk to […]