The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations have been widely discussed in the press and within the medical provider community. Doctors and hospitals have grown used to ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, widely known as HIPAA, is a federal law that restricts the release of medical information without a person’s consent. However, there ...

Protecting patient and employee health information has become more complex. Technology is, and likely always will be, a fundamental part of the healthcare system. While computers make it easier for ...

The “P” in HIPAA doesn’t stand for privacy. It’s one of the first things a lot of experts will say when asked to clear up any misconceptions about the health data law. Instead, it stands for ...

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

At the Interop trade show last month, I chatted with a medical facility that used wireless LANs but had chosen not to deploy Vocera’s popular voice “badges” for conducting phone calls across the WLAN.

Abortion advocates and Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to protect data on patients seeking abortion services, as concerns mount that clinic and hospital information could ...

These modifications were outlined in a “Notice of Proposed Rule Making” on Jan. 21, 2021. But it was not a priority until very recently, when HHS announced plans to finalize this rule in March 2023.

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