The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued new and updated Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) interpreting the HIPAA ...

Credit: Getty Images The rule aims to promote trust and open communication between patients and their health care providers. The “HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A federal reproductive health care privacy rule is intended to prevent law enforcement from obtaining ...

The state of Texas is suing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in a Texas federal district court for a rule it finalized in April that gives healthcare organizations more discretion ...

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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 ...

OCR is accepting comments on the Proposed Rule through September 13, 2010. Covered entities, business associates and others affected by the Administrative Simplification Regulations should consider ...

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 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 ...

Effective bioterrorism planning, prevention, and response require information sharing between various entities, ranging from public health authorities and health-care workers to national security and ...

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued a Final Rule in April 2024 amending the HIPAA Privacy Rule to strengthen protections for reproductive ...