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

Melanie Fontes Rainer, HHS OCR director, speaking at a HIPAA summit this week (Image: Marianne Kolbasuk McGee) As the final months of the Biden administration wrap up, regulators at the agency charged ...

This guide includes everything employers need to know about HIPAA requirements, as well as a HIPAA compliance checklist.

The federal government is upping the ante on healthcare providers to strengthen their policies and procedures for protecting electronic health information. On March 26, the final Health Insurance ...

The Ohio House has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would require health care providers to give parents access to a minor’s ...

State cybersecurity regulations that apply to some hospitals in New York state go well compliance under the federal HIPAA ...

The Department of Health and Human Services on Feb. 20 published the long-awaited final rule on security standards to safeguard the "confidentiality, integrity and availability" of electronic ...

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 ...

As HIPAA-related updates loom, organizations are facing increased pressure to modernize their compliance efforts. Federal regulatory standards and the pace at which ...

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