CLEVELAND, Ohio — Most people have heard of HIPAA, the federal health information privacy rule that allows patients to control who sees their health data and review their medical records for mistakes.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights has settled with MedEvolve for $350,000 over potential HIPAA violations regarding a data breach in which a server containing ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, widely known as HIPAA, is a federal law that restricts the release of medical information without a person’s consent. However, there ...

The assessment gives hospitals, health systems, and their procurement and security teams documented assurance that GCheck ...

HIPAA's New Data Security Expectations Require More Than Encryption andrew.gertz@t… Tue, 06/16/2026 - 14:17 Encryption Key Management Healthcare Regulation and compliance Randy Hildebrandt | Product ...

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 ...

This year alone, there have been three large U.S. healthcare data breaches. They raise important questions about the protection of online health data and the regulations that govern it. The Health ...

New bill, proposed by Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP), purports to apply the privacy and security practices under the HITECH Act, to ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that strengthens the Security Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ...

Protecting patient and employee health information has become more complex. Technology is, and likely always will be, a fundamental part of the healthcare system. While computers make it easier for ...

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