Our Health Care and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy teams discuss the delayed final Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updated its timeframes for upcoming rulemakings on the reginfo.gov website. These dates are ...

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 Department of Health and Human Services has filed proposed modifications to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 security rule to strengthen the cybersecurity of ...

The rule comes in response to health data security concerns arising out of the 2022 overturn of abortion protections established by Roe v. Wade. The Department of Health and Human Services released a ...

Health care providers, health plans and data clearinghouses regulated by HIPAA are required to file breach reports with HHS. Based on the large breaches reported to OCR this year, over 89 million ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced a settlement with Guam Memorial Hospital Authority (GMHA), a public hospital on the U.S. Territory, ...

HHS’ Office for Civil Rights rolled out additional tools and initiatives addressing the opioid crisis to fulfill the 21st Century Cures Act. OCR works to ensure patients and their families have access ...

The Biden administration finalized a rule Monday that bars providers, health plans and other entities covered by HIPAA from disclosing protected health information that could be used to investigate ...

The Biden administration has proposed a new rule that would ban providers, health insurers and other entities covered by the HIPAA privacy law from sharing patient information that could be used to ...