On Jan. 29, 2020, OCR released a notice regarding a recent federal court ruling in the case of Ciox Health, LLC v. Azar, et al., where a federal judge in the District Court for the Distric...
Thanks to a federal judge, the Office for Civil Rights has modified its rules for sending records to third parties. Covered entities are no longer required by HIPAA to send non-electronic protected...
The Health Information Technology Advisory Committee on Wednesday finalized its list of 31 issues to tackle over the next two years, including price transparency and third-party access to health da...
The Health Information Technology Advisory Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved its second annual report to Congress on the state of health IT landscape, reco...
(Reuters Health) – The privacy protections Americans have come to expect when it comes to their medical information may not always apply in school settings, a new report suggests.
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Under the HIPAA Security Rule, covered entities must implement safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information (ePHI). ePHI is any ...
Last summer, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act. The SHIELD Act’s data breach notification requirements are already ef...
Despite a recent court ruling, the issue of what fees can be charged for delivering patient records has not been put to rest, healthcare lawyers say. (turk_stock_photographer/Ge...
After a quiet start, 2019 developed into another active enforcement year for HIPAA, with a notable flurry of activity in the last three months of 2019. One significant enforcement development was O...
On January 23, 2020, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia declared sections of the 2013 Omnibus Rule unlawful. The Court found that the Department of Health and Human Servi...
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