When Office for Civil Rights Director Leon Rodriguez took the stage Monday to talk HIPAA at the HIMSS Media and Healthcare IT News Privacy and Security Forum, the ...

This summary highlights recent 2025 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enforcement actions by the ...

The following is written by Marion K. Jenkins, PhD, FHIMSS, founder and CEO of QSE Technologies. So you think the Department of Health and Human Services isn’t serious about enforcement of HIPAA?

December 2024 was an active month for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), Office for Civil Rights ("OCR"). OCR announced (i) a $1.19 million civil monetary penalty ("CMP") ...

The omnibus rule, which kicked in a little over a month ago in September, establishes a new set of expectations and possibilities on the enforcement front. HIPAA provisions now apply to Business ...

Melanie Fontes Rainer, HHS OCR director, speaking at a HIPAA summit this week (Image: Marianne Kolbasuk McGee) As the final months of the Biden administration wrap up, regulators at the agency charged ...

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), generally speaking, is a federal law that was passed in 1996, the purpose of which is to protect the personal health ...

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