The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued new and updated Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) interpreting the HIPAA ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finalized its personal financial data-rights rule aimed at governing the sharing of consumer data through open banking. The new rule, released early ...

Self-insured group health plans are HIPAA “covered entities” and—unlike most fully insured arrangements—typically must maintain and distribute ...

U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk for the Northern District of Texas vacated portions of the 2024 final rule for multiple reasons, ruling that was “contrary to law” as it illegally preempts or ...

Credit: Getty Images The changes are the first update to the rule since 2013. The proposed changes would require health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and insurance companies to strengthen ...

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A federal patient privacy rule has had a chilling effect on medical research, making it tougher to recruit patients and use their health records, the first national survey on the topic suggests.

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Hoosiers seeking abortions now face another legal barrier following a June Texas ruling — a decision that blocked a Biden administration reproductive privacy rule nationwide. “This is another legal ...

California’s first-in-the-nation privacy agency is retreating from an attempt to regulate artificial intelligence and other forms of computer automation. Agency staff estimate that the changes reduce ...