Despite years of federal warnings, many HIPAA regulated organizations neglect to expand their security risk analysis very far ...

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 ...

Feb. 16, 2026, is the deadline for updating and distributing HIPAA Notices of Privacy Practices (“NPP”) that address the confidentiality ...

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, which ...

In examining how the Office of Civil Rights administered its periodic Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act audit program from January 2016 through December 2020, the U.S. Department of ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking public comment as it plans to update its 2008 guidance for implementing the HIPAA Security Rule, which went into effect about 20 years ago ...

Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth will offer Linden, Utah-based HIPAA One security risk analysis software as an optional line-item on their monthly invoice in an effort to provide greater value and ...

BENGALURU, KARNATAKA, INDIA, January 22, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — MethodHub Software Limited is pleased to announce that it ...

New federal security standards that cover how personal health information is electronically maintained or transmitted could create a legal nightmare for the health care industry, will require a ...

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In late February, the Department of Health and Human Services released a new rule under HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) called the final rule on security standards.

The Covered Components and individuals who work in any of the Covered Components listed on the HIPAA Compliance website, are affected by this policy. Purdue University is a Hybrid Entity under the ...