Lots of businesses, such as hospitals, insurers and medical practices, have access to personal medical information. The federal government passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ...

COVID-19 has prompted the world to hunker down and work from home. For the average person with a desk job, this doesn’t pose regulatory problems, but for healthcare providers, the use of personal ...

Baycare Health System in Clearwater, Florida, will pay $800,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights to settle allegations of potential HIPAA violations. OCR ...

HIPAA violations don't always come from malicious attacks or headline-making data breaches. More often, they stem from everyday mistakes, like misdirected emails and vendors that aren't as secure as ...

Some are claiming that questions about Covid-19 vaccination status are violations of HIPAA. Here security checks Covid-19 vaccination cards before the game between the Toronto Blue Jays and Miami ...

If you’re being interviewed and a journalist asks you if you’re vaccinated, is that a violation of HIPAA? California government and healthcare employees will soon be required to show proof they’ve ...

In this installment, we'll look at what types of actions or failures result in violations, and how to avoid them. The HIPAA privacy rule applies to protected health information (PHI), which includes ...

A reader asks: Is it against HIPAA regulations for a supervisor to tell other employees about an employee's medical condition, such as diabetes, substance abuse problems, or cancer, without permission ...

Personal healthcare information is valuable, sits high on healthcare organizations’ list of priorities and is also at high risk. Incidences of compromised data and privacy incidents are growing in ...

California-based St. Joseph's Health will pay $2.1 million to settle allegations over potential HIPAA violations stemming from faulty implementation of a server for meaningful use participation, the ...