In this week’s installment of our blog series on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) HIPAA Security Rule updates in its January 6 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), we discuss ...

Among myriad acronyms in the healthcare industry, HIPAA is one of the most referenced. At the end of last year, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed major updates to this law — named ...

In this final blog post in the Bradley series on the HIPAA Security Rule notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), we examine how the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil ...

This morning ACT -- The App Association and a number of its mobile health company members sent a letter to Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) to encourage Congress to push HHS to make HIPAA regulations clearer ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a rule days before the new year began that would hold healthcare organizations to a higher standard for protecting sensitive healthcare ...

Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) and Rep. Peter Defazio (D-OR) sent a letter to US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Sylvia Burwell asking her to help make HIPAA regulatory guidance clearer for app ...

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GREENSBORO, NC—Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD, a medico-legal expert and the founder of Medical Justice, is calling attention to a landmark federal court ruling that struck down the Department of Health and ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has finalized the most significant HIPAA Security Rule update since 2003, introducing mandatory encryption, multi-factor authentication, annual risk ...

Since Feb. 21, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has announced 14 monetary penalties/settlements related to cyber incidents with no signs of ...

A reorganization of the U.S. federal office charged with enforcing health privacy and security has close observers worried that it will focus less on an epidemic of breaches and more on ...

Baycare Health System in Clearwater, Florida, will pay $800,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights to settle allegations of potential HIPAA violations. OCR ...