Protecting sensitive health information is a fundamental pillar of modern medicine. Patients trust healthcare organizations ...

Feb. 16, 2026, is the deadline for updating and distributing HIPAA Notices of Privacy Practices (“NPP”) that address the confidentiality ...

The 2025 Top Ten list reflects a regulatory environment in significant transition. Last year’s healthcare privacy and security landscape ...

“These changes are consistent with, and arise in part from, the Department’s obligations under Executive Order 13563 to conduct a retrospective review of our existing regulations for the purpose of ...

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 ...

While many of the proposed modifications to the HIPAA Security Rule are reasonable expectations, others will be extremely onerous to implement - especially within a short time frame - if federal ...

1. Sept. 23, 2013 compliance deadline for new requirements.On Jan. 17, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the long-awaited omnibus final rule pursuant to the Health ...

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 newly proposed Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule may look very different once it becomes official as concerns loom. Earlier this year, the Federal Register ...

In one project, protected health information was shared with non-VA investigators without proper approval, a new report states.