If you’re being interviewed and a journalist asks you if you’re vaccinated, is that a violation of HIPAA? California government and healthcare employees will soon be required to show proof they’ve ...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act — otherwise known as HIPAA — has become a major topic of discussion amid the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines as some individuals who have been ...
2023 marked 20 years since the first compliance deadline under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (“HIPAA”) privacy rule. Despite the two decades of experience with HIPAA, ...
Harshit Jain, MD, is Founder & Global CEO of Doceree, a leading global healthcare marketing platform for programmatic messaging to HCPs. The global healthcare landscape has undergone a significant ...
In August 1996, President Clinton signed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) into law. For many Americans, HIPAA is a blip on the radar — some papers that get signed when ...
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 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) required the HHS secretary to develop rules for safeguarding electronic protected health ...
The "P" in HIPAA doesn't stand for privacy. It's one of the first things a lot of experts will say when asked to clear up any misconceptions about the health data law. Instead, it stands for ...
Jefferson County Health Department, a public health agency for Jefferson County in Hillsboro, Missouri, has agreed to settle class action litigation that was initiated in response to a 2022 data ...
Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has sent warning letters to seven health IT Last year, the HHS ...
Almost 30 years ago, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 went into effect to protect the use and disclosure of personal health information. But with a new regime in town, ...
A business associate agreement won't fix risky data flows. Here's what to check across tracking tools, EHR feeds, and ad platforms. The post Why HIPAA compliance in martech goes beyond BAAs appeared ...