The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s Privacy Rule is a federal law prohibiting health care providers, businesses and the people working with ...

In February 2024, HHS finalized significant revisions to 42 CFR Part 2, the federal regulation governing the confidentiality of SUD treatment ...

As the Department of Health and Human Services weighs potential modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, regulators must consider aligning those changes with other ...

These modifications were outlined in a “Notice of Proposed Rule Making” on Jan. 21, 2021. But it was not a priority until very recently, when HHS announced plans to finalize this rule in March 2023.

Credit: Getty Images The rule aims to promote trust and open communication between patients and their health care providers. The “HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support ...

The Trump administration proposed changes Thursday to data privacy rules to give patients more access to their health information and improve care coordination. The ...

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Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. New proposed regulations surrounding reproductive health care data could strengthen privacy protections for patients as the nation’s ...

You may have heard public figures respond to questions about COVID-19 vaccines by citing the HIPAA privacy rule. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, was established in ...

Two different updates to notices of privacy practices (NPPs) are due on February 16, 2026. First, HIPAA covered entities that ...

Editor’s Note: As workplaces reopen, many employers are grappling with whether to require employees to be vaccinated or to impose mask mandates. Some have faced resistance in the form of false claims ...

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