The law prohibits health care providers and businesses and people working with them – including administrative staff, laboratories, pharmacies, health insurers and so on – from disclosing your health ...

The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has released a new platform to provide mobile health developers (and any other interested stakeholders) a sounding board to ask questions, voice concerns, and ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --It's been three weeks since Prince died alone in an elevator at Paisley Park. And there is still so much we don't know about what happened to the 57-year-old music icon. Part of ...

You are the HIPAA privacy official of a hospital or health plan (a covered entity under HIPAA). You receive an email from a vendor that handles protected health information (a business associate), ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to relax safety measures for people who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus and the country begins to reopen, many employers, ...

During the uncertain Covid-19 times, many people choose to get vaccinated or remain on a clear anti-vax stance. In this case, you need to know – who is vaccinated and who isn’t? It can be hard to tell ...

What is worse than having an intruder invade your computer system and maliciously encrypt your patient’s health care records rendering them completely inaccessible to you on your own system? What is ...

2018 saw the federal Office for Civil Rights issue a record-breaking $28 million in fines for HIPAA violations and, judging by how many hospitals, insurance providers, government health departments, ...

I thought I'd look into HIPAA a little more, and it turns out the reality of HIPAA is much more complicated then I realized it was. A situation has come up with a friend of mine that I initially ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — With questions about enforcing different mask rules for different people — given that the difference is something people can choose to keep private — social media was abuzz ...