In late February, the Department of Health and Human Services released a new rule under HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) called the final rule on security standards.

The United States' Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulates how organizations like hospitals and insurers must control and manage protected health information (PHI). HIPAA ...

At the beginning of each year, security pundits (myself included) usually make predictions about which new cyberthreat or fancy attack vector will capture the attention and budget of IT organizations ...

In examining how the Office of Civil Rights administered its periodic Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act audit program from January 2016 through December 2020, the U.S. Department of ...

While many of the proposed modifications to the HIPAA Security Rule are reasonable expectations, others will be extremely onerous to implement - especially within a short time frame - if federal ...

The HHS wants to update the HIPAA security rule for the first time in more than a decade to bolster healthcare cybersecurity, regulators said late last month. The Office for Civil Rights, which ...

In recent years, health care organizations and the vendors that support them have been prime targets for cyber attacks. Indeed, just last year, the ransomware attack on the health care clearinghouse ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is planning a massive overhaul of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security rule to strengthen baseline ...

Earlier this year, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the HIPAA Security Rule. The notice focused on modernizing security ...

At the recent SSO Summit I moderated a panel of single sign-on implementers. One of them, Christopher Paidhrin HIPAA & IT security officer for ACS Healthcare Solutions, was kind enough to let me share ...