You’ve probably noticed the shift. Leadership is asking about vendor agreements. They want to know whether your Business Associate Agreements are current, whether they cover what they need to cover, […]
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The HIPAA Security Rule is headed for its most significant overhaul since 2013. The proposed rule published by HHS in January 2025 would eliminate the distinction between “required” and “addressable” […]
The proposed HIPAA Security Rule update eliminates the flexibility that behavioral health teams have relied on for twenty years. The workaround you documented. The consumer-grade tool you justified because nothing […]
OCR collected more than $6.6 million in HIPAA fines in 2025. Risk analysis failures drove nearly every settlement. One of those settlements was a behavioral health provider. And that was […]
Leadership signed off on an AI tool. A governance framework exists somewhere in a shared drive. For the clinicians, supervisors, and IT staff who interact with that tool every day, […]
AI has arrived in behavioral health whether governance is ready or not. More than 80% of physicians reported using AI in a professional context in 2026, double the share from […]