It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. High on the regulatory watch list for the healthcare sector is ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was introduced in 1996 to safeguard private health information and ensure continuity of coverage for individuals navigating employment ...

HIPAA-compliant hosting providers to secure healthcare data with cloud, compliance, encryption, and reliability.

Discover how the HIPAA Waiver of Authorization permits legal sharing of health data for research while upholding privacy protections. Learn the criteria required for approval.

Next year marks the 20th anniversary of the passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). HIPAA's purpose is to protect the privacy and security of protected ...

A number of healthcare professionals and businesses are susceptible to violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) due to outright security failures and compliance ...

NPR's Kelsey Snell speaks with Deven McGraw, cofounder of consumer health data firm Ciitizen, to clear up misconceptions about HIPAA rules and protections. Another misconception that crops up a lot in ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 protects the privacy of health information. In the workplace, HIPAA ensures that employee health information is not provided to parties, ...

HIPAA summary: What is HIPAA? HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is a law passed in 1996 that transformed many of the ways in which the healthcare industry operated in the ...

The federal HIPAA law protects patient privacy, but some say it can shut out family members trying to help relatives who are experiencing mental health crises. Visiting a doctor's office often means ...

The term “HIPAA violation” can conjure up images of large-scale data breaches. But health care providers need to be aware that, in the midst of the federal government’s increased focus on fraud in the ...

In the 20 years since its enactment, HIPAA has evolved to become the face of patient privacy guidelines. But even before the Healthcare Insurance Portability Accountability Act was enacted in 1996, ...