The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week released final amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to further protect the privacy of protected health information (PHI) related to reproductive health care....more
4/29/2024
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Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HIPAA Privacy Rule ,
HITECH Act ,
New Amendments ,
Patients ,
PHI ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Reproductive Healthcare Issues
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") issued a concept paper describing its overarching strategy to address healthcare cybersecurity. The concept paper builds on the Biden-Harris Administration's National...more
12/18/2023
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Enforcement ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
HITECH Act ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Medicare ,
OCR ,
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The FTC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to introduce changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR). While the HBNR began as a breach notification rule seemingly focused on a narrow set of applications...more
5/26/2023
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Data Security ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Mobile Apps ,
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) ,
Privacy Laws ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Third-Party Service Provider ,
Wellness Programs