Protecting sensitive health information is a fundamental pillar of modern medicine. Patients trust healthcare organizations ...

The HIPAA Privacy and Security Omnibus final rule should bring some long-awaited clarification and certainty to marketing, fundraising and other aspects of ...

In February 2024, HHS finalized significant revisions to 42 CFR Part 2, the federal regulation governing the confidentiality of SUD treatment ...

Federal regulators plan to seek public comments on whether the HIPAA rules create barriers to sharing patient information among healthcare providers, hampering the ability to coordinate care. See Also ...

Ever since the updated HIPAA rule took effect last March, some hospital IT departments see themselves as “the HIPAA police,” clamping down in ways that the rule doesn't require, says one industry ...

In light of the upcoming deadline for covered entities to update their Notice of Privacy Practices by February 16, 2026, covered entities ...

The preamble to the final rule implementing the privacy requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act explicitly invokes the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. "The need ...

Background The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted in 1996 to protect sensitive health information from being disclosed without patients' consent. Under this act, a ...

Linda Sanches, OCR senior adviser, discusses compliance audits at HIPAA conference. Will the Department of Health and Human Services under the Trump administration create a permanent HIPAA compliance ...

Editor's note: MobiHealthNews spoke with two experts about whether GPT-5 should be regulated or comply with HIPAA, and the broader implications of AI in healthcare. This is part two of a two-part ...

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