Feb. 16, 2026, is the deadline for updating and distributing HIPAA Notices of Privacy Practices (“NPP”) that address the confidentiality ...

Despite increasing investment, security awareness training continues to deliver marginal benefits. With a focus on actions over knowledge, AI-based HRM can personalize training to improve employee ...

Despite years of federal warnings, many HIPAA regulated organizations neglect to expand their security risk analysis very far beyond electronic health records, said ...

In this day in age, lawyers can upload documents to an AI platform and have the platform review the records and create a summary of the same. In fact, some insurance carriers are beginning to mandate ...

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 ...

More than 100 health systems and other provider organizations “have united to oppose” cybersecurity and privacy regulations proposed back in January. The groups, corralled by the College of Healthcare ...

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. A visit to a doctor's office often means ...

A group of five Delaware nursing homes has paid $182,000 over its efforts to publicize patients’ success stories, federal officials announced Tuesday. The Department of Health and Human Services ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with BST & Co. CPAs, LLP, a New York-based accounting and business ...

The study of 214 healthcare IT leaders and practice managers at organizations with fewer than 250 employees found that nearly all small practices (98%) claim their platforms "encrypt emails by default ...