On January 6, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS”) Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) published a ...

These changes to HIPAA, outlined in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), aim to increase cybersecurity protections for ...

The Biden Administration’s Office for Civil Rights delivered on its promise to propose an update to the HIPAA Security Rule. Our Health Care ...

Technology has changed significantly since the HIPAA Security Rule was last updated in 2013, the HHS' Office for Civil Rights ...

IAPP Cybersecurity Law Center Managing Director Jim Dempsey writes about the U.S. Department of Health Human Services' notice ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed a rule to enhance cybersecurity under the Health Insurance ...

HHS proposes new HIPAA rules to combat rising cyber threats, including 72-hour data restoration, encryption mandates, and ...

If approved, the proposed new HIPAA rules will reshape the landscape of healthcare cybersecurity, partially addressing the recent OIG report’s findings on the ineffectiveness of current HIPAA audits.

Read more about the proposed rule to better defend individuals' electronic protected health information from cyberthreats.

The CMS regulations, which were issued last January, require federally regulated health plans to "improve the electronic ...

HUD last week proposed the first potential update to HIPAA rules since 2013 with the goal of improving cybersecurity ...

The security rule update, which would be the first since 2013, aims to clarify and provide more instruction on securing ...