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

Our Health Care and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy groups review the status of the proposed update to the HIPAA Security Rule. The proposed changes to the HIPAA ...

Some healthcare providers already meet potential new HIPAA security requirements, but others may face significant challenges.

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 ...

While many of the proposed modifications to the HIPAA Security Rule are reasonable expectations, others will be extremely onerous to implement - especially within a short time frame - if federal ...

On March 21, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement of HIPAA security rule claims involving Health Fitness Corporation (Health ...

A new resource, created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is designed to help healthcare organizations meet regulations of the HIPAA Security Rule, according to a NIST news ...

The Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this week announced that it has reached a settlement with Tampa, Florida-based BayCare Health System over several ...

Opposition is building as industry organizations weigh in on the public comment period for proposed changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule. In January ...

3. Final rule on Breach Notification for Unsecured Protected Health Information under the HITECH Act, which replaces the breach notification rule’s “harm” threshold with a more objective standard and ...