The NPRM introduces the first significant updates to HIPAA’s security rule in over a decade. The NPRM revises definitions of ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reached a settlement with ...

Amy S. Leopard and Eric Setterlund of Bradley discuss proposed new regulations to enhance cybersecurity protections for ...

The updates aim to fortify the confidentiality, integrity and availability of electronic protected health information, or ...

Gelfand, president of the ERISA Industry Committee, a group representing the interests of self-insured employee benefit plans ...

For Health Fitness, it agreed to implement a corrective action plan that OCR will monitor for two years and paid $227,816 to OCR. For ERISA plan fiduciaries, an important question is what they need to ...

The healthcare sector faces an alarming rise in cyber threats, and long-term care providers are not exempt. In response, HHS Office proposed.

The rule aims to revise existing security standards "to better protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information," according to the department's ...

As it pertains to the Gramm Leach Bliley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Safeguarding of Electronic Customer Information and Protected Health Information ...

The centerpiece of these changes eliminates the reasonable and appropriate analysis for encryption, making encryption of electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) mandatory across all ...

The HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules require covered entities (including healthcare providers and health plans) and their ...

In recent years, health care organizations and the vendors that support them have been prime targets for cyber attacks.