In the 2024 HIPAA Reproductive Health Care Rule (“RHC Rule”), the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) updated the ...

The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the US Department of Health and Human Services recently released a final rule (“Final Rule”) to update the HIPAA ...

In a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the American Hospital Association said the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights rule regarding the use of ...

A recent decision from the Connecticut Supreme Court holds that HIPAA does not preempt state law negligence actions, and suggests state courts can look to federal HIPAA regulations as a guide to ...

Can you go to prison for violating HIPAA even if you're not aware you're breaking the law? A U.S. appellate court says yes. See Also: Mastercard on Agentic Payments: How AI Agents, Tokenization, and ...

Almost five months after the data security rules mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act went into effect, many health care companies still aren’t fully compliant with them ...

Privitar, the leading data privacy platform provider, today released the latest version of the Privitar Data Privacy PlatformTM which includes enhanced HIPAA ...

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Federal regulators plan to seek public comments on whether the HIPAA rules create barriers to sharing patient information among healthcare providers, hampering the ability to coordinate care. See Also ...

WASHINGTON — The sweeping set of medical data privacy rules that were announced late last year by the Clinton administration are under fire and in limbo. The implementation of the regulations, which ...