The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reached a settlement with ...

The Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule was issued to protect a person's individually identifiable health information and addresses ...

Protected Health Information means Individually Identifiable Health Information, which means information that is a subset of health information, including demographic information, collected from an ...

A HIPAA compliance assessment is an evaluation of an organization's practices, policies, and procedures to ensure that they ...

Cyber threats against hospitals are surging. What steps are being taken by the health-care sector to address the increasing impacts of cyber attacks? Let’s explore.

“Based on initial targeted data sampling to date, the company has found files containing protected health information (PHI) or personally identifiable information (PII), which could cover a ...

The healthcare sector faces an alarming rise in cyber threats, and long-term care providers are not exempt. In response, HHS Office proposed.

De-identification is the process by which all links between the subjects' personally identifying information and their research data are severed and the investigator has no code by which to ...

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / March 20, 2025 / Compass Health Brands recently disclosed that it suffered a data breach that compromised the ...

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / March 19, 2025 / The Center for Digestive Health recently disclosed that it suffered a data breach that ...