The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is poised to finalize the most significant update to the HIPAA Security Rule since ...

Healthcare entities and their business associates (healthcare companies) have spent the better part of two decades navigating the Health ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights has settled with MedEvolve for $350,000 over potential HIPAA violations regarding a data breach in which a server containing ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, widely known as HIPAA, is a federal law that restricts the release of medical information without a person’s consent. However, there ...

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 year alone, there have been three large U.S. healthcare data breaches. They raise important questions about the protection of online health data and the regulations that govern it. The Health ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has filed proposed modifications to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 security rule to strengthen the cybersecurity of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Most people have heard of HIPAA, the federal health information privacy rule that allows patients to control who sees their health data and review their medical records for mistakes.

Protecting patient and employee health information has become more complex. Technology is, and likely always will be, a fundamental part of the healthcare system. While computers make it easier for ...

While many of the proposed modifications to the HIPAA Security Rule are reasonable expectations, others will be extremely onerous to implement - especially within a short time frame - if federal ...

Optimoz, the leading provider of Enterprise AI platform today announced that it has achieved HIPAA compliance and ...