I hear it from small practice owners constantly: we're too small for OCR to care, too small for hackers to bother with. The 2026 enforcement record says otherwise, and I want to walk you through why — and what it actually costs to fix.
When OCR opens an investigation, there are two documents they want almost immediately. One company couldn't produce evidence it had ever done the first. After thirty years, I can tell you the second one trips up just as many organizations.
Platform Updates · Spring 2026 We've been busy. Here's a look at the features we've added over the past two months to make your HIPAA
Think our free HIPAA training is broken? The real issue is attention to detail - and that matters in healthcare.
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Is your healthcare organization truly HIPAA compliant — or just hoping no one looks too closely? This complete 2026 guide covers what it really means to be compliant with HIPAA, the most common failure points, and exactly how to build a program that holds up under federal scrutiny.
A software vendor exposed the records of 15 million people and paid one of the smallest OCR penalties ever. The number that should worry you is not the fine — it is the 15 million. Here is what it says about how we train business associates.
An Illinois rehab center settled with OCR over a single phishing email that exposed fewer than 2,000 records. After thirty years in compliance, that case is exactly the one I use to explain why employee HIPAA training is not paperwork.
HIPAA compliance training is legally required. Learn exactly what the law mandates for workforce training.