As ransomware and other cyber attacks hit the health-care sector, organizations need to follow stronger security guidance, ...

Provide administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to ensure compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule Safeguard against anticipated threats to the security or integrity of protected electronic ...

In further response, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mark Warner (R-VA) introduced the Health Infrastructure Security and ...

On October 23-24, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the National Institute of Standards ...

While HIPAA does not specifically address video surveillance, its requirements for privacy and security of PHI affect how it should be implemented. This means anything that could identify a patient, ...

HIPAA is a federal law that created national standards to protect ... and is considered one of the “toughest data privacy and ...

HIPAA is limited to "covered entities" and their ... is one of the most stringent state laws regarding the privacy and security of medical information, and it became even more so with the passage ...

This guide answers common employer questions about HIPAA obligations. In the healthcare industry, patient data is considered sensitive and, as such, is subject to certain privacy and security ...