The long-overdue final HIPAA omnibus rule was posted on the Federal Register public inspection desk Jan 17. The package of regulations will be officially posted on the Federal Register on Jan. 25. See ...

Since it was first enacted, the healthcare industry has been under constant pressure to keep personal healthcare information (PHI) secure and to remain compliant with the evolving rules and ...

Significant changes have been made to the privacy and security obligations of providers with respect to patients’ protected health information with the release of the Omnibus Final Rule on January 17, ...

From it’s inception, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (or the HITECH Act) was intended to further enforce many rules within the Health Insurance Portability and ...

Investigations by the Office for Civil Rights related to compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act will no longer be initiated by only complaints and self-reported ...

HIPAA rules and regulations tend to strike fear into the hearts of healthcare providers. This set of requirements is there for good reason – to protect patient confidentiality, reinforce the rights of ...

On Jan. 17, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final omnibus rule that modified prior regulations pertaining to protected health information (PHI) that were enacted ...

Although HIPAA was passed in 1996, it would take nearly seven years for the initial HIPAA Privacy Rule to go into effect. As the first federal law to address the ...