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 ...

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. High on the regulatory watch list for the healthcare sector is ...

Look for the Biden administration to put health data privacy and security on the front burner next year. See Also: Going Beyond the Copilot Pilot - A CISO's Perspective As attorney general for ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reached a settlement with Illinois-based Health Fitness Corporation, a provider of wellness ...

Funding for HIPAA enforcement would increase slightly under President Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal 2021, thanks, in part, to income generated from fines imposed for HIPAA violations. Also ...

The use of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems has revolutionized how healthcare is provided by allowing access to data and improving the coordination of care among medical professionals. But, the ...

At the Interop trade show last month, I chatted with a medical facility that used wireless LANs but had chosen not to deploy Vocera’s popular voice “badges” for conducting phone calls across the WLAN.

HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was passed by Congress into law in the year 1996. It is legislation that provides security provisions and data ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has filed proposed modifications to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 security rule to strengthen the cybersecurity of ...

NILES, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Johnson & Quin, a full-service direct mail production and mailing services company, has successfully achieved the HIPAA Security Compliance Assessment which certifies ...