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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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A federal patient privacy rule has had a chilling effect on medical research, making it tougher to recruit patients and use their health records, the first national survey on the topic suggests.

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 ...