Credit: Getty Images The changes are the first update to the rule since 2013. The proposed changes would require health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and insurance companies to strengthen ...

On June 25, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights' (HHS) HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care took effect ...

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A group of five Delaware nursing homes has paid $182,000 over its efforts to publicize patients’ success stories, federal officials announced Tuesday.

The decades-old federal law protecting the privacy of individual health information is threatened by multiple lawsuits that seek to throw out a rule restricting disclosure of information in criminal ...

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives recently urged the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights to scale back recommended changes to HIPAA, according to ...

Personal injury and medical malpractice firms are built on trust. Yet, the average cost of a data breach in the professional ...

With an onus now on vendors to keep hosted data secure, that can make business associate agreements trickier than ever to negotiate as hospitals try to protect patient information and IT companies try ...

Prior to the implementation of the Privacy Rule, there existed fragmented and varied laws and policies concerning health information privacy. [4] The U.S ...