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 ...

An unmitigated revamp of healthcare cybersecurity is coming in 2025, and experts warn that the compliance burden for organizations will be steep. Since 2005, healthcare organizations have been subject ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a rule days before the new year began that would hold healthcare organizations to a higher standard for protecting sensitive healthcare ...

In late February, the Department of Health and Human Services released a new rule under HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) called the final rule on security standards.

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is planning a massive overhaul of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security rule to strengthen baseline ...

The HIPAA Security Rule may soon undergo its first major overhaul in over two decades. Although finalization could come as early as May 2026, timelines remain uncertain. Regardless, the proposed ...

Healthcare CIOs and CISOs are monitoring the recent Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposal to update the HIPAA Security Rule. These changes, ...

The Covered Components and individuals who work in any of the Covered Components listed on the HIPAA Compliance website, are affected by this policy. Purdue University is a Hybrid Entity under the ...

New federal security standards that cover how personal health information is electronically maintained or transmitted could create a legal nightmare for the health care industry, will require a ...

The HHS wants to update the HIPAA security rule for the first time in more than a decade to bolster healthcare cybersecurity, regulators said late last month. The Office for Civil Rights, which ...

In examining how the Office of Civil Rights administered its periodic Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act audit program from January 2016 through December 2020, the U.S. Department of ...