The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released a proposed rule to better protect electronic health data from ...

Technology has changed significantly since the HIPAA Security Rule was last updated in 2013, the HHS' Office for Civil Rights ...

The security rule update, which would be the first since 2013, aims to clarify and provide more instruction on securing ...

On Dec. 27, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued proposed updates to the HIPAA Security Rule to address evolving ...

aimed at enhancing cybersecurity protections for electronic protected health information (ePHI) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule. Issued on December ...

HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was passed by Congress into law in the year 1996. It is legislation that provides security provisions ...

The Office for Civil Rights, which oversees HIPAA enforcement ... and technical safeguards defined in the Security Rule to protect ePHI against common cybersecurity threats,” the watchdog ...

As a healthcare decision-maker, you understand the urgency of safeguarding patient data while adhering to evolving HIPAA and HITECH ... array of security challenges: cyber threats, risk of data ...

Ransomware, a prevalent cyber threat in healthcare ... OCR’s probe uncovered several potential HIPAA Security Rule violations ...

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 ...