The long-overdue final HIPAA omnibus rule was posted on the Federal Register public inspection desk Jan 17. The package of regulations will be officially posted on the Federal Register on Jan. 25. See ...

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 ...

Seyfarth Synopsis: This past Monday, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its final rule aimed at ...

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on June 18, 2025, issued an order vacating the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care ...

Suppose you're 16 weeks pregnant and thus ineligible to legally get an abortion in the state of Florida, so you fly to Illinois where it's still legal and have the procedure done there. Can Florida ...

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The federal government is upping the ante on healthcare providers to strengthen their policies and procedures for protecting electronic health information. On March 26, the final Health Insurance ...

The preamble to the final rule implementing the privacy requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act explicitly invokes the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. "The need ...

A recent decision from the Connecticut Supreme Court holds that HIPAA does not preempt state law negligence actions, and suggests state courts can look to federal HIPAA regulations as a guide to ...

Is your email a HIPAA Compliant? Or does it need to be a HIPAA complaint for your private practice? You may think the answer is obvious and ofcourse, as a healthcare professional you need to be aware ...