A lawsuit in Texas seeks to overturn HIPAA privacy laws that protect private healthcare information, in part to enforce its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Americans will no longer have to decide what’s more important: Their health or their credit score. Finalized on January 7, a ...

The Biden Administration’s Office for Civil Rights delivered on its promise to propose an update to the HIPAA Security Rule. Our Health Care ...

As nurses, integrating HIPAA regulations into daily practice upholds ... over fourteen years experience working in healthcare. As a medical writer and legal nurse consultant, Bridget welds her ...

Most HIPAA regulations only apply to covered functions ... However, if the study involves the researchers having direct access to decedent medical records or PHI, even if identifiers will not be ...

On January 6, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (Proposed Rule) ...

Hollywood, Fla.-based Memorial Healthcare System will pay $60,000 to resolve allegations of violating the HIPAA Privacy Rule by failing to provide a patient with timely access to their medical records ...

What, you ask, is a HIPAA release? HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It is a federal law that protects your medical information from wrongful disclosure.

A medical supply firm will pay $3 million to settle issues found by a HIPAA investigation into a breach. Also, a public health system will pay $60,000 to resolve a ...