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Ultimately, getting data protection right isn’t just about avoiding fines or ticking regulatory boxes; it’s about earning and ...
HBNR, which imposes specific notification requirements on vendors of personal health records (PHRs) and PHR related entities when unauthorized access to unsecured health information occurs.
Nationwide vacatur halts key HIPAA reproductive health privacy protections. Providers must revisit policies amid ongoing legal uncertainty and confusion ...
Although Covered Entities must continue to protect reproductive health information under the standard federal protections HIPAA affords to protected health information, the heightened restrictions ...
Planning for, preventing, and responding to a potential or actual bioterrorism event requires coordination and information sharing among multiple people and entities.
The HIPAA decision opens the floodgates for law enforcement to use patient records to investigate any type of reproductive care.
Federal judge strikes down Health and Human Services HHS rule limiting PHI disclosures for reproductive care investigations, citing major-questions doctrine and stat ...
Kacsmaryk wrote that the Biden administration “invoked HIPAA as a shield against abortion-restrictive states.” He said the rule was written to protect “politically preferred procedures ...
The judge ruled the Biden-era rule attempted to expand the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's scope beyond what Congress had authorized.
The Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this week announced that it has reached a settlement with Tampa, Florida-based BayCare Health System over several ...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rights help protect the privacy and use of an individual’s health information.
HIPAA regulations strictly control access to a deceased spouse's medical records, including those from Medicare. You can only access these records if you legally represent their estate or have ...