In the final days of the Biden Administration, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a notice ...

The Proposed Rule ... second exception would apply to an emergency or other occurrence that adversely affects a Regulated Entity’s relevant electronic information systems or the confidentiality ...

Proposed changes to HIPAA regulations are meant to strengthen cybersecurity protections for electronic protected health information.

Arguably all health information is sensitive. But some health data is regarded as especially sensitive, either through the ...

Over the past decade, there has been an immense increase in the popularity of health applications and connected health devices as more and more of consumers’ health information is shared online.

Although the Privacy Rules were promulgated with the patient's privacy interests in mind, the rules also recognize that the covered entity must be given some ...

Initially, the findings we have presented appear to be contradictory. On the one hand, most physicians believe that the Privacy Rule as a whole and a few of its key ...

Thank you for your commitment to always protecting patient privacy. The Ohio State President’s Cabinet approved a new Protected Health Information (PHI) and HIPAA Policy. The policy unifies current ...

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Favoritism has long existed in the workplace, and now it’s dictating who has to abide by widely despised RTO rules. Experts say ... employers are “creating more exceptions, which looks floppy.