A final rule is expected later this spring, and many of its proposed changes would be time‑consuming and costly for covered entities and business associates to manage. But implementing some of these ...

The Trump administration is quietly seeking unprecedented access to medical records for millions of federal workers and ...

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The United States' Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulates how organizations like hospitals and insurers must control and manage protected health information (PHI). HIPAA ...

Balancing HIPAA compliance and effective marketing is a challenge. Many healthcare companies remain unaware of HIPAA provisions and ways to comply with them. As of July 2023, healthcare organizations ...

The economic recession probably brought healthcare CEOs closer to their organizations' day-to-day activities. New federal HIPAA laws should have too. Daniel Nutkis, CEO of The Health Information Trust ...

A long-overdue report on findings from a HIPAA compliance audit program conducted in 2016 and 2017 illustrates shortcomings that, unfortunately, are still common today. Those include the failure to ...

When Congress adopted HIPAA in 1996 there was a great deal of commotion surrounding the new information-handling rules. Healthcare organizations spent considerable time and money on training. This was ...

Slack is making moves that indicate its moving into the health-care sector. The company filed for a confidential IPO on Monday. Two sources said Slack is only HIPAA compliant for file uploads, and not ...