Four U.S. lawmakers - including the chair of the Senate health, education, labor and pensions committee - are taking another ...

HHS seeks input HIPAA security rule video by Dec. 8 to address risk management and OCR investigations in a prerecorded presentation.

Vanta reports many organizations faced HIPAA violations this year, often from staff errors and vendor oversight, highlighting ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere you look now, boasting an ability to streamline workflow and boost efficiency—and the health care ...

HHS' crack down on a school that illegally vaccinated a child will have implicationsfor parental rights regarding gender ...

On November 24, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed a 2024 lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney General ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly transforming healthcare. Hospitals and health systems are exploring AI to ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, widely known as HIPAA, is a federal law that restricts the release of medical information without a person’s consent. However, there ...

With misinformation on the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine keeping millions of Americans from getting inoculated, an erroneous defense has been used to deflect questions about who has received a shot ...

Those entities must comply with HIPAA but may not need to do so for all operations. A local government with a self-funded health plan may qualify as a HIPAA covered entity. A county that operates a ...

The health system is settling a class action lawsuit after finding that data-tracking technology used on its websites and ...

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