If approved, the proposed new HIPAA rules will reshape the landscape of healthcare cybersecurity, partially addressing the recent OIG report’s findings on the ineffectiveness of current HIPAA audits.

Purdue University complies with several laws regarding benefit offerings and protecting employee health information. This includes endeavors to preserve the privacy and confidentiality of the ...

Healthcare marketing presents a unique challenge While businesses in other sectors can target audiences with fewer restrictions healthcare organizations must comply with stringent regulations designed ...

These changes to HIPAA, outlined in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), aim to increase cybersecurity protections for ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) rules create a framework to protect the privacy and security of patient and health plan member ...

The HIPAA Security Rule may soon undergo a big overhaul that would better defend healthcare data from cybersecurity threats – and require much ...

Healthcare technology vendors that create, receive, maintain, or transmit protected health information are obligated under ...

Email is one of the most important means of communication for healthcare workers, however, while communicating sensitive ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that strengthens the Security Rule of ...

The Information Technology Security and Privacy Office is responsible for ensuring administrative, technical, and physical safeguards are implemented to ensure the ...

A lawsuit suggests part of New York's plan to outsource the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) violates ...

There were 281 occurrences of patient ages greater than 89 years. HIPAA requires that these ages be reported not uniquely (§164.514[b][2][i][C]), but rather as a range. In the deidentified-data ...