If you’re being interviewed and a journalist asks you if you’re vaccinated, is that a violation of HIPAA? California government and healthcare employees will soon be required to show proof they’ve ...

If you’re being interviewed and a journalist asks you if you’re vaccinated, is that a violation of HIPAA? HIPAA — short for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 — only ...

The Office of Civil Rights (OCR), the federal entity overseeing HIPAA compliance and enforcement, continues to make patient requests to access ...

The "P" in HIPAA doesn't stand for privacy. It's one of the first things a lot of experts will say when asked to clear up any misconceptions about the health data law. Instead, it stands for ...

Harshit Jain, MD, is Founder & Global CEO of Doceree, a leading global healthcare marketing platform for programmatic messaging to HCPs. The global healthcare landscape has undergone a significant ...

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 ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) required the HHS secretary to develop rules for safeguarding electronic protected health ...

Over the past couple of years, numerous large employers and their health plan fiduciaries have faced lawsuits regarding their health plan’s ...

Almost half the US states have passed comprehensive consumer data privacy protections that go beyond federal health privacy rules, known as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Occupational health services provider Concentra will pay OCR $112,500 to resolve alleged HIPAA right of access failures. Continue Reading ...

HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is name dropped a lot, but frequently misunderstood. Many are surprised to find that the “P” stands for portability, not privacy.

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