Editor’s Note: As workplaces reopen, many employers are grappling with whether to require employees to be vaccinated or to impose mask mandates. Some have faced resistance in the form of false claims ...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has finished its review of proposed rules related to changes to HIPAA privacy and security rules, meaning the rules could hit the streets this week. The OMB ...

Melanie Fontes Rainer, HHS OCR director, speaking at a HIPAA summit this week (Image: Marianne Kolbasuk McGee) As the final months of the Biden administration wrap up, regulators at the agency charged ...

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services announced the final omnibus rule for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act last week. Much has changed in 15 years since HIPAA was ...

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. High on the regulatory watch list for the healthcare sector is ...

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Recent cases in Indiana have revealed the inconsistent and hard-to-decipher rules protecting patient records under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, known as HIPAA.

Can you go to prison for violating HIPAA even if you're not aware you're breaking the law? A U.S. appellate court says yes. See Also: Mastercard on Agentic Payments: How AI Agents, Tokenization, and ...

A recent decision from the Connecticut Supreme Court holds that HIPAA does not preempt state law negligence actions, and suggests state courts can look to federal HIPAA regulations as a guide to ...

So, you’ve heard about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). You think that’s an issue for health plans and health care providers, not human resources, right? Well, not ...