The HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules 1 apply to healthcare providers who engage in certain electronic transactions, healthcare clearinghouses ...

Compliance issues can quickly escalate into compliance nightmares, with serious implications for patient safety, legal liability, and ...

Any entity handling personal electronic healthcare information therefore should take the initiative to ensure compliance.

Under the Breach Notification Rule, HIPAA covered entities have until March 1 to submit reports of small breaches that occurred during calendar year 2016 to HHS’ Office for Civil Rights. As outlined ...

Members of the healthcare industry are generally aware of the HIPAA breach notification requirements. Those HIPAA requirements include (if the breach affects the PHI of more than 500 individuals) ...

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The Department of Health and Human Services has filed proposed modifications to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 security rule to strengthen the cybersecurity of ...

1. Sept. 23, 2013 compliance deadline for new requirements.On Jan. 17, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the long-awaited omnibus final rule pursuant to the Health ...

If your org deals with medical data, you should be familiar with HIPAA. The healthcare industry, given its scope and potential for innovation, is full of opportunities for startups. However, the ...

HIPAA also covers “business associates” of any of these entities—in other words, another entity that helps one of these covered entities carry out its health care activities or functions. Notably, a ...

Balancing HIPAA compliance and effective marketing is a challenge. Many healthcare companies remain unaware of HIPAA provisions and ways to comply with them. As of July 2023, healthcare organizations ...

HIPAA rules and regulations tend to strike fear into the hearts of healthcare providers. This set of requirements is there for good reason – to protect patient confidentiality, reinforce the rights of ...