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Intelligence · Compliance News

HIPAA news that's relevant to your practice. Filtered nightly.

Nightly HHS OCR breach data and enforcement intelligence — filtered to your sector, your size, your relevance. Stay informed without subscribing to the noise.

Included in Core·Starting at $39/mo
Patient Protect — Compliance News
Patient Protect Compliance News showing filtered feed of HIPAA breach disclosures, OCR enforcement actions, and regulatory updates relevant to the practice's sector

HIPAA mapping

What this satisfies in the Security Rule.

2 citations, each with the specific Compliance News behavior that satisfies it. The mapping is the receipt — what you can show an auditor without assembling anything new.

§164.404

Notification to individuals

Specifies notification requirements following breaches. The news feed surfaces breach patterns useful for understanding notification practices in your sector.

§164.408

Notification to the Secretary

Specifies reporting obligations to HHS. The OCR breach disclosure data is the public output of these reports; the feed surfaces the relevant disclosures for your context.

What it does

Filtered intelligence. No noise.

Independent practices can't keep up with HIPAA enforcement and breach activity by reading every health-IT publication. The volume is too high; the relevance is too uneven. Most practices end up either over-subscribed (signal lost in noise) or under-subscribed (missing patterns that affect their sector). Neither produces actionable intelligence.

Compliance News is the alternative. The platform ingests HHS OCR breach data nightly, layers in enforcement actions and regulatory updates, and filters to what's relevant for your practice — your sector, your size, your operational context. The result is a focused intelligence feed: what's happening in HIPAA enforcement that you should know about, and only that.

Some items are informational (“here's what happened”); some trigger Compliance Advice items (“review your training given this enforcement pattern”); some inform Risk Intelligence (“vendor X had a public incident, your BAA relationship may warrant review”).

How it works

7 mechanisms keep Compliance News working.

01

Nightly OCR data ingestion.

The HHS Office for Civil Rights publishes breach disclosure data publicly. The platform ingests this data nightly via the public APIs and feeds. New disclosures appear in the news feed within 24 hours of HHS publication.

02

Enforcement action tracking.

Settlement announcements, CMP impositions, and corrective action plans are tracked as they're published. Each action is indexed by the gap type involved, the practice characteristics, and the resolution structure. Useful for benchmarking your own program against peer outcomes.

03

Sector and size filtering.

The feed is filtered against your practice's profile. Set your sector (behavioral health, primary care, dental, optometry, etc.) and size (record volume, workforce count) during onboarding; the filter operates against those parameters. Adjust the parameters and the feed re-filters.

04

Relevance scoring.

Each item in the public dataset gets a relevance score for your practice. High-relevance items appear prominently; medium and low-relevance items appear filtered or in expanded views. The scoring methodology is documented; the filter is transparent.

05

Linked actions.

Some news items are informational. Others trigger Compliance Advice items, modify Risk Intelligence inputs, or suggest training updates. The link is visible — click an item, see what platform action (if any) it triggered, and trace the chain.

06

Community signal aggregation.

When multiple practices on the platform report similar incidents (e.g., a vendor's outage affecting multiple connected offices), the pattern aggregates as a community signal. Useful for identifying sector-wide events early.

07

Trend analytics.

Beyond individual items, the feed includes trend visualization — breach volume by sector, enforcement action frequency, threat-vector evolution. Useful for board reporting and for informing your own program's priorities.

Who this is for

Built for the practices that need it most.

Practices that want signal without subscribing to publications.

Health-IT publications, compliance newsletters, vendor blog feeds — all carry HIPAA news, all carry mostly-irrelevant HIPAA news for any specific independent practice. The filtered feed is the alternative.

Practices in sector-specific threat contexts.

Behavioral health attacks differ from optometry attacks differ from primary care attacks. Sector-relevant news produces intelligence that generic feeds dilute.

Practices with vendor concentration.

When a major vendor experiences an incident, every connected practice is affected. The feed surfaces vendor-specific events that warrant review of your own vendor relationships.

Practices with reporting or board responsibilities.

The feed's trend analytics produce useful inputs for board reporting — sector breach trends, enforcement patterns, relevant comparison points.

What you get

6outcomes you'll feel in week one.

Filtered relevance.

Sector, size, geography, vector — matched to your practice.

Nightly OCR data.

Public breach disclosures ingested within 24 hours of HHS publication.

Enforcement action tracking.

Settlement and CMP patterns observable as they emerge.

Linked actions.

News items can trigger Advice, Risk, or Training updates; the chain is visible.

Community signal aggregation.

Network-effect intelligence from connected practices.

Trend analytics.

Sector and pattern visualization for board and program reporting.

FAQ

What people ask first.

6 questions cover most first-time evaluations. See all FAQs →

Can I customize the filter?
Yes. Beyond the sector and size parameters, you can tune relevance thresholds, mute specific categories, and configure notification cadence (daily digest, real-time for high-relevance, weekly summary).
Is this real-time or daily?
OCR breach disclosures ingest nightly (HHS publication schedule supports daily, not real-time, for breach data). Enforcement actions and regulatory updates ingest as they're published, often multiple times per week. The feed shows both with timestamp.
What about non-public information?
The feed uses only publicly-available data. Non-public information (your practice's own incident details, specific practices' confidential information) is never in the feed. Network signals from connected practices are aggregated anonymously.
Can I share the feed externally?
The feed itself is not externally shareable. Specific items can be linked to their public sources (HHS publications, OCR announcements). Reports built from the feed (trend analytics, sector benchmarking) can be exported for external sharing.
Does the feed replace my legal counsel?
No. The feed is intelligence; legal counsel is interpretation. Significant enforcement actions warrant counsel discussion. The feed surfaces what's worth discussing.
Is this Core or Pro?
Core. The Compliance News feed is included in the base Patient Protect subscription. Pro adds advanced trend analytics and community signal aggregation.

Next step

HIPAA news that's relevant. Filtered nightly. Without the noise.

Most practices configure their sector and size in minutes. The feed starts surfacing relevance the same night.

No contracts. No consultants. Starting at $39/mo.