The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is poised to finalize the most significant update to the HIPAA Security Rule since ...

Healthcare entities and their business associates (healthcare companies) have spent the better part of two decades navigating the Health ...

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 ...

An unmitigated revamp of healthcare cybersecurity is coming in 2025, and experts warn that the compliance burden for organizations will be steep. Since 2005, healthcare organizations have been subject ...

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 ...

In recent years, health care organizations and the vendors that support them have been prime targets for cyber attacks. Indeed, just last year, the ransomware attack on the health care clearinghouse ...

HIPAA's New Data Security Expectations Require More Than Encryption andrew.gertz@t… Tue, 06/16/2026 - 14:17 Encryption Key Management Healthcare Regulation and compliance Randy Hildebrandt | Product ...

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Office for Civil Rights have announced they will be soliciting comments on a proposal to modify the Security Standards for the Protection of ...

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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 ...

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The Department of Health and Human Services on Feb. 20 published the long-awaited final rule on security standards to safeguard the "confidentiality, integrity and availability" of electronic ...