Background The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted in 1996 to protect sensitive health ...

Compliance programs typically refer to formalized institutional procedures within corporations and organizations to detect, prevent and respond to indvidual and ...

As a reminder, in April 2024, HHS issued a Final Rule amending the HIPAA Privacy Rule in a few significant ways: Defining “reproductive health care” broadly to ...

Almost half the US states have passed comprehensive consumer data privacy protections that go beyond federal health privacy rules, known as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

This guide includes everything employers need to know about HIPAA requirements, as well as a HIPAA compliance checklist.

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 ...