The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is responsible for enforcing the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. Any person who ...

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 ...

While HIPAA settlements with large financial penalties grab headlines, the vast majority of such settlements tied to breaches and other complaints call for no such penalties, the Department of Health ...

In response to the letter written by John Canning, "": WebMD operates the country's largest electronic transactions clearinghouse in the United States, annually processing more than 2.3 billion ...

A report released on Friday found that HIPAA complaints and breaches spiked between 2017 and 2021, with the agency in charge of handling the notices saying it lacks sufficient resources to properly ...

A significant number of HIPAA complaints are not actual violations under the law, according to HHS’ Office of Civil Rights’ latest Annual Report to Congress on ...

HIPAA complaints and breaches increased from 2017 to 2021, but the agency in charge of auditing compliance said it doesn’t have the resources to handle the uptick. The HHS Office for Civil Rights, or ...

Children's Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska is paying $80,000 to settle a potential violation of the HIPAA privacy law on a complaint that the hospital did not provide timely access to all ...