The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s Privacy Rule is a federal law prohibiting health care providers, businesses and the people working with ...

The proposed cybersecurity rule, released during the waning days of the Biden administration, would add “substantial new ...

More than 100 health systems and other provider organizations “have united to oppose” cybersecurity and privacy regulations proposed back in January. | The cybersecurity and privacy regulation update ...

Discover how the HIPAA Waiver of Authorization permits legal sharing of health data for research while upholding privacy protections. Learn the criteria required for approval.

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 U.S. Department of Health & Human Services announced the final omnibus rule for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act last week. Much has changed in 15 years since HIPAA was ...

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 ...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has finished its review of proposed rules related to changes to HIPAA privacy and security rules, meaning the rules could hit the streets this week. The OMB ...

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Editor’s Note: As workplaces reopen, many employers are grappling with whether to require employees to be vaccinated or to impose mask mandates. Some have faced resistance in the form of false claims ...