Melanie Fontes Rainer, HHS OCR director, speaking at a HIPAA summit this week (Image: Marianne Kolbasuk McGee) As the final months of the Biden administration wrap up, regulators at the agency charged ...

Discover how the HIPAA Waiver of Authorization permits legal sharing of health data for research while upholding privacy protections. Learn the criteria required for approval.

A working group made up of members from three organizations plans this month to release guidelines for complying with the data security requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and ...

The Covered Components and individuals who work in any of the Covered Components listed on the HIPAA Compliance website, are affected by this policy. Purdue University is a Hybrid Entity under the ...

The new CMS Interoperability Framework aims to harmonize protections across covered entities, business associates and patient ...

As a whole, the healthcare industry is very familiar with HIPAA rules and laws. In fact, when it comes to the basics, most individuals probably know the big ‘no-no’s’ like the back of their hand.

The public is going to start hearing a lot more about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. Hospitals and clinics have been preparing for it for three years. "Pretty much, ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) rules create a framework to protect the privacy and security of patient and health plan member health information. Purdue ...

I’ve worked with healthcare organizations long enough to notice a pattern: Many treat HIPAA compliance as a finish line. Once they've checked off a few items, passed an audit or updated a document or ...