Any entity handling personal electronic healthcare information therefore should take the initiative to ensure compliance.

HIPAA is a law that protects your medical information and history. Medical providers like doctors and insurance companies are beholden to HIPAA.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued new and updated Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) interpreting the HIPAA ...

The HIPAA Privacy and Security Omnibus final rule should bring some long-awaited clarification and certainty to marketing, fundraising and other aspects of ...

The preamble to the final rule implementing the privacy requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act explicitly invokes the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. "The need ...

De-identified risk free health data linkage can raise privacy risks; learn key safeguards healthcare systems must apply to protect patient information.

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued a Final Rule in April 2024 amending the HIPAA Privacy Rule to strengthen protections for reproductive ...

Ever since the updated HIPAA rule took effect last March, some hospital IT departments see themselves as “the HIPAA police,” clamping down in ways that the rule doesn't require, says one industry ...

HIPAA protects patient privacy by limiting how medical information is shared. But the story of a Michigan mom caring for her ...

HBNR duties affect many health apps, products, and organizations that fall outside HIPAA's scope Companies' intentional data disclosures, as well as cyber incidents, may trigger HBNR breaches ...