HIPAA Updates

On April 2, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued another [...]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released its final interoperability, information [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a final rule modifying the pharmacy HIPAA [...]

Following a ruling in a federal court that went against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the [...]

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (ASFR), Department of Health and Human [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has released an updated version [...]

At the OCR/NIST HIPAA Security Conference in Washington D.C., the Director of the Department of Health and [...]

A new rule has been proposed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) that [...]

The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) has written to Congress demanding changes be made to [...]

New HIPAA guidance for health plans has been published by the Department of Health and Human Services’ [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued new advice on HIPAA [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has made changes to the maximum penalties for HIPAA [...]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Division of National Standards has recently announced [...]

New rules were published by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator [...]

Washington D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine wants to reinforce data breach notification regulations to [...]

The Dental Board of California revealed in a recent report that some dentists in the state are not giving [...]

New bills (SB 1270 /HB 1153) have been proposed by Senator Gary Farmer (D-FL) and Representative Bobby DuBose [...]

The New Jersey Assembly unanimously approved a bill that broadens the types of personal data that call for [...]

The IRS has launched its 2019 ‘Dirty Dozen’ campaign, which cautions taxpayers about the 12 most commonly [...]

Nevada Senator Catherine Cortex Masto, (D-NV) recently proposed a bill called the Data Privacy Act, which [...]

The HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for [...]

Wyoming is contemplating repealing the Hospital Records Act of 1991. The act was created to make sure [...]

The Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (45 CFR part 46), also called the Common Rule, has [...]

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the American Health Information Management [...]

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is requesting the Health Insurance Portability and [...]

The HHS has prepared a Request for Information (RFI) to find out how HIPAA Rules are obstructing the sharing [...]

On October 26, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that the opioid crisis in the United States was a [...]

What changes in HIPAA regulations could be expected in 2018? Are there new HIPAA regulations expected to be [...]

Alex Azar, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has waived HIPAA sanctions and [...]

Because of the policy of two out for every new regulation, it is likely that there will be few new HIPAA [...]

Following President Trump’s declaration of a public health emergency in Virginia due to Hurricane [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, in the July edition of its [...]

Alex Azar, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), explained in an address at The [...]

A new bill has been proposed in the state of Massachusetts that aims to enhance protections for customers [...]

Health insurer Aetna conducted a survey about consumers’ attitudes toward healthcare, their associations [...]

OCR has reminded healthcare organizations of the importance of patch management for HIPAA compliance. Patches [...]

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has submitted extensive comments about the HHS’ Centers for [...]

The federal government published on June 19, 2018 the final rule for the Federal Policy for the Protection of [...]

A new bill – HB 1128 – has been signed into law by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper which [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has issued many financial penalties [...]

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed into law the South Carolina Insurance Data Security Act on May [...]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently conducted an audit which showed that patients still face [...]

OCR published in its April 2018 cybersecurity newsletter the importance of performing a gap analysis. While a [...]

Most healthcare compliance officers prioritize the compliance of their organizations with the HIPAA Privacy [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) [...]

The Trump Administration has introduced a new rule that requires two regulations to be removed for any new [...]

Liquid Web is a hosting solution provider that has been in the business for 20 years. Is it a HIPAA compliant [...]

A Pleasanton, CA-based company has been developing Zoho, a suite of cloud-based tools and applications, since [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights began publishing summaries of [...]

The Colorado data breach notification bill was introduced in January to protect residents against data [...]

The Massachusetts Attorney General’s office launched a new online data breach reporting tool. The purpose [...]

Iowa Attorney General introduced a new bill that proposes changes to the Iowa Breach Notification Act. Since [...]

There are only two U.S. states that do not have data breach legislation for the protection of their state [...]

A bipartisan group of legislators in Colorado proposed changing its privacy and data breach notification laws [...]

Healthcare organizations will pay a big amount for noncompliance with HIPAA Rules. Despite the hefty [...]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a partial waiver of HIPAA sanctions and penalties for [...]

Healthcare organizations need to address the security risks associated with the use of mobile devices and [...]

Santa Barbara-based Cottage Health has agreed to pay $2 million as a financial penalty for a breach case with [...]

The New York based not-for-profit community health plan provider Amida Care has reported a HIPAA breach that [...]

A clinic employee has failed to get his 5-year jail term reduced. The man stole the protected health [...]

The confusion about HIPAA Rules on sharing patient information on opioid overdoses has been clarified by the [...]

According to the released results of a recent survey, the practice of sharing EHR passwords is commonplace, [...]

Deven McGraw, the Deputy Director for Health Information Privacy at the Department of Health and Human [...]

Healthcare groups are only authorized to use business associates that agree to adhere with HIPAA Rules and [...]

A limited waiver of HIPAA sanctions and penalties was issued by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of [...]

Amida Care, the New York not-for-profit community health plan, has announced that it has experienced HIPAA [...]

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a new rule for certification of [...]

A new initiative – that will assist small healthcare providers with HIPAA compliance, cybersecurity and [...]

In a recent correspondence with the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, the American Hospital [...]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has already imposed two partial waivers of HIPAA [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has introduced a new campaign to [...]

A public health crisis was declared in some parts of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Florida and Puerto Rico, which [...]

Hospitals in the states of Louisiana and Texas needed to make sure medical services are provided through the [...]

The Director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Roger Severino, [...]

The American Hospital Association (AHA) sent a letter to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee and [...]

During emergency situations for example natural disasters, HIPAA Privacy Rule compliance can be a difficult [...]

Next generation firewalls, intrusion detection systems, insider threat control solutions as well as data [...]

Under the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule (45 CFR §§ 164.400-414), covered entities need to notify the [...]

Protenus, together with Databreaches.net, made its Breach Barometer mid-year report. It discusses all [...]