Safeguarding of Electronic Customer Information and Protected Health Information Objectives of the Information Security Program for the Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA) and Health Insurance Portability ...

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 ...

If approved, the proposed new HIPAA rules will reshape the landscape of healthcare cybersecurity, partially addressing the recent OIG report’s findings on the ineffectiveness of current HIPAA audits.

Healthcare technology vendors that create, receive, maintain, or transmit protected health information are obligated under ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) rules create a framework to protect the medical privacy of patients and health plan members. In general, HIPAA privacy ...

This is non-negotiable in the digital age. With the increasing adoption of healthcare video analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, it’s more crucial than ever to strike the right ...

Audits are a distinct part of OCR’s program. Audits were introduced in the HITECH Act that directed OCR to conduct periodic audits for compliance with the HIPAA rules,” he said, noting two ...

On November 20, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued the Nursing Facility ...