The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s Privacy Rule is a federal law prohibiting health care providers, businesses and the people working with ...

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

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has finished its review of proposed rules related to changes to HIPAA privacy and security rules, meaning the rules could hit the streets this week. The OMB ...

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 ...

Recent cases in Indiana have revealed the inconsistent and hard-to-decipher rules protecting patient records under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, known as HIPAA.

As the Department of Health and Human Services weighs potential modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, regulators must consider aligning those changes with other ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services announced the final omnibus rule for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act last week. Much has changed in 15 years since HIPAA was ...

Although the passing of HIPAA and its privacy and security rules for patient health information occurred over a decade ago, the HITECH Act passed in 2009 strengthens some of the already existing rules ...

Editor’s Note: As workplaces reopen, many employers are grappling with whether to require employees to be vaccinated or to impose mask mandates. Some have faced resistance in the form of false claims ...