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HealthConsent Editorial

Editorial team for healthcare data privacy content

We compile consumer-facing healthcare data breach pages, HIPAA rights explainers, and investigative pieces on health data privacy. Our work is independent. We are not a law firm. We are not a journalism outfit. We are a healthcare-privacy service that publishes editorial content because the people who receive breach notification letters deserve clear, action-oriented information in one place.

What we cover

Healthcare data breach pages: every 2026 HHS OCR breach disclosure with action steps for affected individuals.
HIPAA rights and state-law explainers: what your rights are, in plain English.
Editorial and investigative writing: long-form pieces on health data privacy, mental health data, app reviews, and ongoing investigations.

How we work

The HHS Office for Civil Rights Breach Portal is the federal regulatory record of file. We treat it as authoritative on its own for the facts it contains: organization name, affected count, breach type, and submission date. Additional non-government claims (data elements exposed, attacker attribution, ransom demands, dark-web leak status, class-action filings) require at least one corroborating source before they appear on a page: the breached entity's own notification, a state attorney general filing, established trade press (HIPAA Journal, Becker's, DataBreaches.net), or a class-action plaintiff filing. We do not write from memory. We do not invent details. When a source is missing for a non-government claim, we say so explicitly on the page.

The full standard is documented in our published methodology. We hold ourselves to the standard we publish.

Corrections

If you find an error on any page, email [email protected] with the URL and the correction. We respond and update within one business day. The visible "Last updated" date on every page reflects the most recent revision.

Publisher & founder

HealthConsent is a publication of Healthnode Inc., a Newport Beach, California company registered with CMS (NPI 1821580226). Healthnode was founded by Edward Sharpless, D.Sc., who holds a Doctor of Science in Healthcare Administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Editorial compilation work is bylined to this team. Long-form pieces Edward writes or substantively edits are bylined to him directly.