HIPAA protects the privacy of medical records, whereas FERPA does not. The dichotomy had the Delta County School District ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new breach reporting website and guidance materials to support its duties of enforcing compliance ...

Beginning Feb. 16, noncompliance in protecting confidentiality of SUD patient records could result in penalties aligned with those available under HIPAA ...

To respond to ever-increasing violence, hospitals here and nationwide are equipping their security personnel with body ...

The Delta County School District Board of Education (school board) considered an updated policy for the release of student records and information to parents, ultimately tabling the matter for further ...

Mohana Ravindranath is a freelance health, science, and tech journalist and a 2025 Association for Health Care Journalists fellow. She was previously a Bay Area health tech correspondent for STAT. As ...

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HIPAA compliance software is no longer optional. In 2024, cyber-attacks exposed the medical records of roughly 82 percent of Americans, and each breach now costs U.S. providers about $7.42 million, ...

The four lawsuits at the center of a Republican-led effort to ensure law enforcement can access reproductive health records are now mostly resolved, after attorneys for Texas Attorney General Ken ...