HIPAA Compliance Software vs. Security Operations Tools: What OCR Actually Audits (2026)
Bundled “compliance + security ops” platforms are the 2026 marketing frame. OCR enforcement tells a different story: the risk analysis is what audits examine first.
Medcurity vs Live Compliance: 2026 HIPAA Compliance Comparison
SRA-first depth vs bundled security operations — an honest 2026 comparison of Medcurity and Live Compliance for healthcare organizations, with published pricing.
Medcurity Compliance Digest — Week of June 29, 2026
Medcurity Compliance Digest — Week of June 29, 2026 Welcome to this week’s Medcurity Compliance Digest, where we track OCR enforcement, new breach reports, and regulatory signals — and translate them into what your practice should actually do this week. OCR Enforcement Actions This Week No new OCR enforcement actions were announced this week (June […]
HIPAA Asset and Device Inventory: Building the Foundation Every Risk Analysis Needs (2026)
HIPAA Asset and Device Inventory: Building the Foundation Every Risk Analysis Needs (2026) You cannot protect what you have not counted. Every HIPAA Security Rule safeguard — access controls, encryption, audit logging, media disposal — assumes you already know which systems, servers, laptops, mobile devices, and cloud services create, receive, maintain, or transmit electronic protected […]
Medcurity Compliance Digest — Week of Jun 22, 2026
Medcurity Compliance Digest — Week of June 22, 2026 Each week we read the OCR enforcement feed and the HHS breach portal so you don’t have to — and translate what’s there into what it means for the kind of practice you actually run. Here’s the week of June 22. The short version: another quiet […]
AI Coding Assistants and HIPAA: Using Copilot and Cursor Safely in Healthcare
AI Coding Assistants and HIPAA: Using Copilot and Cursor Safely in Healthcare AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Amazon Q have moved from novelty to default inside healthcare engineering teams. They speed up development, but they also introduce a new path for protected health information (PHI) to leave a controlled environment — through […]
Continuous Vendor Monitoring in Healthcare: Moving Beyond the Annual Questionnaire
Continuous Vendor Monitoring in Healthcare: Moving Beyond the Annual Questionnaire Most healthcare organizations assess a vendor once — at onboarding — and then treat that point-in-time review as if it stays true for the life of the contract. It does not. A vendor that was secure when it signed your Business Associate Agreement can be […]
BAA vs. Vendor Risk Assessment: Why a Signed Contract Isn’t Compliance
BAA vs. Vendor Risk Assessment: Why a Signed Contract Isn’t Compliance Many healthcare organizations treat a signed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) as the finish line for vendor compliance. It is closer to the starting line. A BAA is a contract that allocates legal responsibility for protected health information (PHI). A vendor risk assessment is the […]
HIPAA-Compliant AI Scribes: A 2026 Buyer’s Guide for Healthcare Organizations
HIPAA-Compliant AI Scribes: A 2026 Buyer’s Guide for Healthcare Organizations Last reviewed: June 2026. Ambient AI scribes — tools that listen to a clinical encounter and draft the note automatically — are the fastest-spreading AI technology in healthcare. They also create a new, continuous flow of protected health information (PHI) to a third-party vendor. Under […]
AI Governance in Healthcare: A Practical Framework for HIPAA-Covered Organizations
AI Governance in Healthcare: A Practical Framework for HIPAA-Covered Organizations Artificial intelligence is already inside your organization — in ambient scribes, claims tools, patient-facing chatbots, and the consumer apps your staff quietly paste notes into. The question is no longer whether to allow AI, but how to govern it so that patient data, regulatory obligations, […]