Healthcare organizations face an unprecedented security crisis. Since 2018, the number of individuals affected by healthcare data breaches has nearly doubled—hitting 56 million last year. These ...

New federal rules for securing personal health data give insurers and medical providers more flexibility on IT than expected. That could lower compliance costs but create a potential legal nightmare ...

The United States' Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulates how organizations like hospitals and insurers must control and manage protected health information (PHI). HIPAA ...

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 ...

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. High on the regulatory watch list for the healthcare sector is ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reached a settlement with Illinois-based Health Fitness Corporation, a provider of wellness ...

The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, created by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT under the 21st Century Cures Act, holds huge promise for interoperability and ...

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 ...

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 ...