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, […]

HIPAA Vendor Risk Assessment Questionnaire: What to Ask Every Business Associate in 2026

HIPAA Vendor Risk Assessment Questionnaire: What to Ask Every Business Associate in 2026 Every healthcare organization depends on outside vendors — billing companies, cloud hosts, analytics platforms, AI scribes, e-fax providers, managed IT. The moment one of them creates, receives, maintains, or transmits protected health information (PHI) on your behalf, they become a business associate, […]

Is ChatGPT HIPAA Compliant? What Healthcare Teams Need to Know in 2026

Is ChatGPT HIPAA Compliant? What Healthcare Teams Need to Know in 2026 Short answer: it depends entirely on which version of ChatGPT you use and whether you have a signed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) in place. The consumer ChatGPT that most people log into is not HIPAA compliant, and entering protected health information (PHI) into […]

HIPAA-Compliant AI Tools: A 2026 Buyer’s Guide for Healthcare Teams

HIPAA-Compliant AI Tools: A 2026 Buyer’s Guide for Healthcare Teams Artificial intelligence is now embedded in nearly every layer of healthcare operations — from ambient scribes that draft clinical notes to chatbots that triage patient questions. But “AI tool” and “HIPAA-compliant AI tool” are not the same thing. A tool becomes usable with protected health […]

Medcurity Compliance Digest — Week of June 15, 2026

Medcurity Compliance Digest — Week of June 15, 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 15. The short version: a quiet […]

HIPAA Compliance for Oncology Practices and Cancer Centers (2026)

HIPAA Compliance for Oncology Practices and Cancer Centers (2026) Oncology handles some of the most sensitive protected health information in all of medicine. A single cancer patient’s record can combine a diagnosis, genomic sequencing results, clinical trial enrollment, mental health notes, and reporting to a state cancer registry — each governed by HIPAA, and several […]

Medcurity vs. Kiteworks: HIPAA Compliance Platform Comparison (2026)

Medcurity vs. Kiteworks: HIPAA Compliance Platform Comparison (2026) Healthcare teams shopping for “HIPAA software” often end up comparing tools that solve very different problems. Medcurity and Kiteworks are a good example. Both appear in HIPAA conversations, but they sit at different layers of a compliance program: Kiteworks secures how sensitive data moves, while Medcurity runs […]

OCR Investigation Response: What to Do When HHS Contacts You (2026)

OCR Investigation Response: What to Do When HHS Contacts You The envelope — or the email — says U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. Before anything else, know this: an OCR investigation letter is not a finding, not a fine, and not rare. It is a document request with a […]

Medcurity Compliance Digest — Week of June 8, 2026

Your weekly five-minute read on OCR enforcement, new breach reports, and what they mean for your healthcare practice.