Despite years of federal warnings, many HIPAA regulated organizations neglect to expand their security risk analysis very far ...

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 ...

The HHS wants to update the HIPAA security rule for the first time in more than a decade to bolster healthcare cybersecurity, regulators said late last month. The Office for Civil Rights, which ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently published an executive summary (Report) outlining key enforcement activities of the Health Insurance ...

Can you remember healthcare security 20+ years ago? It seems like a different world from now. Believe it or not, the HIPAA Security Rule has barely changed since it was first enacted in 2003[1] and ...

In examining how the Office of Civil Rights administered its periodic Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act audit program from January 2016 through December 2020, the U.S. Department of ...

BENGALURU, KARNATAKA, INDIA, January 22, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — MethodHub Software Limited is pleased to announce that it ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking public comment as it plans to update its 2008 guidance for implementing the HIPAA Security Rule, which went into effect about 20 years ago ...

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Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth will offer Linden, Utah-based HIPAA One security risk analysis software as an optional line-item on their monthly invoice in an effort to provide greater value and ...

New federal security standards that cover how personal health information is electronically maintained or transmitted could create a legal nightmare for the health care industry, will require a ...

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 ...