Learn about HIPAA, the U.S. act safeguarding healthcare data privacy and setting standards for medical information storage ...

Clym reports that HIPAA requires explicit authorization for sharing health data, not just cookie consent, highlighting gaps in current practices.

When HIPAA was enacted, its main focus was to ensure individuals could maintain health insurance. A wide range of patient information is covered under HIPAA privacy statutes, which regulate how ...

When a study released this fall found that more than 50% of staff fail Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) assessments, two-thirds witness internal breaches, and more than 80% ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act limits when medical information can be shared. But some advocates say those protections can also get in the way of care. In a social media ...

The timing was perfect. On September 23, the same day that the HIPAA Final Rule on Privacy & Security kicked in, Office of Civil Rights director Leon Rodriguez spoke ...

Raleigh Orthopedic allegedly failed to execute a business associate agreement with this company prior to turning over the X-rays and health information. [Also: OCR unleashes second wave of HIPAA ...

Since the HIPAA compliance date for privacy was implemented in April 2003, nearly 100,000 complaints falling under this umbrella have been submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services.