The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations have been widely discussed in the press and within the medical provider community. Doctors and hospitals have grown used to ...

Editor’s Note: As workplaces reopen, many employers are grappling with whether to require employees to be vaccinated or to impose mask mandates. Some have faced resistance in the form of false claims ...

Patients want their healthcare information to stay private. Healthcare provider organizations want to keep patient data secure. But the need for interoperability and sharing of protected health ...

Abortion advocates and Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to protect data on patients seeking abortion services, as concerns mount that clinic and hospital information could ...

Jessica Galardini, President and COO, JRG Advisors, the managment arm of ChamberChoice The Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act (HIPAA) governs the use of ...

Promote the portability of insurance coverage as employees moved from job to job; Increase accountability and decrease fraud and abuse in healthcare; and Improve the efficiency of the healthcare ...

An amended version of the bipartisan 21st Century Cure bill, which aims to advance medical innovation, has passed its first Congressional hurdle without any revisions ...

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 ...

Western Michigan University (WMU) is a hybrid entity with designated health care components and a self-insured health insurance plan component. This Policy outlines those designations and establishes ...

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