On January 6, 2025, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a notice of ...
On December 27, 2024, in the midst of the holiday season, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) deployed ...
Through December 20, 2024, 575 security incidents involving unsecured protected health information affecting 500 or more ...
Provide administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to ensure compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule Safeguard against anticipated threats to the security or integrity of protected electronic ...
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 ...
The US government has published plans to update the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule, in a bid to address surging healthcare data breaches. The ...
OCR director Melanie Fontes Rainer said: “This proposed rule to upgrade the HIPAA Security Rule addresses current and future cybersecurity threats.” Over the past five years, OCR has observed ...