In the first five months of 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced it had entered ...

2.2.1. Electronic data is considered secured if: 2.2.1.1. The data has been properly encrypted consistent with guidance issued by the Department of Health & Human Services and 2.2.1.2. The ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) rules create a framework to protect the privacy and security of patient and health plan member health information. Purdue ...

If you’re being interviewed and a journalist asks you if you’re vaccinated, is that a violation of HIPAA? No. What if your ...

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-covered entities and business associates should be familiar with restrictions on the ...

Congress established penalties for noncompliance and for unauthorized disclosure of protected information but did not establish or fund enforcement for HIPAA. DHHS has commissioned the Office of ...

Cigna was accused of trading the health information of insured people who visited its website for corporate profit in what ...

Inc. for potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The case stems from a 2019 phishing attack that exposed the unsecured electronic protected health ...

Massachusetts-based Onsite Women’s Health is facing at least nine proposed class actions alleging it negligently failed to protect the personal information of more than 350,000 people that was exposed ...

Fortunately, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) provides some clarifications. In general, the income from a long-term care insurance policy is non-taxable, and the ...