The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued proposed changes to the HIPAA Security Rule (“Proposed Rule”) on ...

The Department of Health and Human Services wants to update the HIPAA security rule for the first time in more than a decade to bolster ... factor authentication — a common cybersecurity safeguard ...

On January 6, 2025, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a notice of ...

The HHS wants to update the HIPAA security rule for the first time ... safeguard where users have to provide more than one form of identification to gain access — with few exceptions.

Credit: Getty Images Under a new rule, covered entities are expected to revise HIPAA policies, procedure manuals, and operational workflow to respond to requests for protected health information ...

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 ...

Heads up! The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has proposed an update to HIPAA's Security Rule to help reduce the likelihood/mitigate the risk associated with cyber-attacks. This is especially timely ...

Technology has changed significantly since the HIPAA Security Rule was last updated in 2013 ... organizations read the text as exempting some forms of ePHI. The proposed rule also focuses on ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed major updates to HIPAA (the first since 2013!) this December that directly target the cybersecurity gaps healthcare has been ...

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 ...

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including updates on our health, can be given out. They don’t tell us that they are taking away our HIPAA rights when we sign a consent form.