Case Studies

    HIPAA Audit Success Stories

    What actually happens when a Northeast Houston medical practice takes HIPAA seriously — the finding, the fix, and the measured result.

    Dental groupHumble, TX

    How a 4-Location Dental Group Passed an OCR Desk Audit With Zero Findings

    An OCR data request landed with a 10-business-day clock and no current Security Risk Analysis on file. Six weeks later the group closed the audit with zero findings.

    0
    OCR findings
    54/54
    Security Rule specifications documented
    48
    Staff re-trained and attested
    $0
    Civil monetary penalty
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    Family medicineAtascocita, TX

    Ransomware at a Family Medicine Clinic — and Why It Was Not a Reportable Breach

    A front-desk workstation was encrypted on a Tuesday morning. Because segmentation held and backups were immutable, the clinic restored from clean copies and documented why no breach notification was required.

    < 6 hrs
    Time to containment
    0
    ePHI records exfiltrated
    0
    Patients requiring breach notification
    40 min
    Recovery point from immutable backup
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    PediatricsKingwood, TX

    A Pediatric Practice's First Security Risk Analysis Found 34 Gaps — and Closed the Critical 12 in 90 Days

    Eleven years in practice and no Security Risk Analysis on file — the single most common finding in OCR enforcement. The assessment found 34 gaps; the remediation plan closed the critical ones in a quarter.

    34
    Findings identified
    12/12
    High-severity findings closed in 90 days
    0
    Shared clinical logins remaining
    18%
    Cyber liability premium reduction at renewal
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    Orthopedic surgery groupNortheast Houston, TX

    Segmenting Imaging and Medical Devices at a Northeast Houston Orthopedic Group

    Imaging equipment running end-of-life operating systems shared one flat network with every workstation. Segmentation isolated the devices without taking a single clinic day offline.

    31
    Unpatchable devices isolated
    0
    Hours of clinical downtime
    0
    Paths from guest network to ePHI on re-test
    5 wks
    Design to verified cutover
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    Behavioral healthPorter / New Caney, TX

    Texas HB300 Readiness and a 71% Drop in Phishing Clicks at a Behavioral Health Provider

    Behavioral health records carry heightened sensitivity and Texas HB300 adds obligations on top of federal HIPAA. Training and process changes moved both the compliance record and the human risk.

    34% → 10%
    Simulated phishing click rate
    5x
    Increase in suspicious-message reporting
    15 → 8 days
    Average electronic access fulfilment
    100%
    Workforce on the HB300 training cycle
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    Client identities are protected under our Business Associate Agreements. These engagement stories are anonymised composites drawn from real Atascocita IT audits of the practice type described; metrics reflect the documented outcomes of those engagements.

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