HIPAA compliance requirements continue to evolve, and recent court decisions have understandably drawn significant attention.

If your business is required to maintain a notice of your HIPAA privacy practices, you must act quickly to make sure your notice is updated to ...

The long-overdue final HIPAA omnibus rule was posted on the Federal Register public inspection desk Jan 17. The package of regulations will be officially posted on the Federal Register on Jan. 25. See ...

Covered entities and business associates finally have an idea what the accounting of disclosures provision in HITECH is all about. The Department of Health & Human Services publically released a ...

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 ...

Revisions to 42 CFR Part 2 that go into effect soon to better align federal regulations for the confidentiality of substance ...

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

This guide includes everything employers need to know about HIPAA requirements, as well as a HIPAA compliance checklist.

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The use of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems has revolutionized how healthcare is provided by allowing access to data and improving the coordination of care among medical professionals. But, the ...

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 ...