The Trump administration on Tuesday announced immediate limited waivers of certain HIPAA privacy provisions to help improve patient care during the growing COVID-19 pandemic. For example, it's now OK ...

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 ...

The current HIPAA Security rule defines Risk Analysis as: “Conducting an accurate and thorough assessment of the potential risk and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity and availability ...

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 ...

The rule comes in response to health data security concerns arising out of the 2022 overturn of abortion protections established by Roe v. Wade. The Department of Health and Human Services released a ...

The Biden administration has proposed a new rule that would ban providers, health insurers and other entities covered by the HIPAA privacy law from sharing patient information that could be used to ...

HHS has finalized a rule requiring certain electronic healthcare claims and prior authorization transactions to include standardized electronic attachments. The rule adopts new standards under HIPAA ...

A new proposed rule would also specifically apply to new technologies in healthcare like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, virtual reality and applied reality. (anyaberkutiStock / Getty ...

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The Biden administration finalized a rule Monday that bars providers, health plans and other entities covered by HIPAA from disclosing protected health information that could be used to investigate ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced a settlement with Guam Memorial Hospital Authority (GMHA), a public hospital on the U.S. Territory, ...