Almost 30 years ago, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 went into effect to protect the use and disclosure of personal health information. But with a new regime in town, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 HHS Office for Civil Rights proposed modifications to the HIPAA Security Rule to address the increasing frequency of cyberattacks in the sector and enhance security requirements for covered ...
A new proposed rule would also specifically apply to new technologies in healthcare like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, virtual reality and applied reality. (anyaberkutiStock / Getty ...
The HHS Office for Civil Rights is responsible for enforcing HIPAA rules. A core part of OCR's enforcement responsibilities is evaluating every HIPAA complaint filed to the department and reaching a ...
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 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has quietly resumed HIPAA compliance audits of covered entities and business associates for the first time in nearly a decade. See Also: Using the ...
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 ...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) kicked off a notice of proposed rulemaking on Dec. 27 that it said aims to change the existing Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of ...
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