Key Takeaways HIPAA compliance continues to evolve in 2026, but organizations need to distinguish between current ...

The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the US Department of Health and Human Services recently released a final rule (“Final Rule”) to update the HIPAA ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) established national standards for the security and privacy of protected health information ...

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 ...

In April 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued final regulations addressing reproductive health care under HIPAA (89 Fed. Reg. 32976 (Apr. 26 ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) required the HHS secretary to develop rules for safeguarding electronic protected health ...

As the Department of Health and Human Services weighs potential modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, regulators must consider aligning those changes with other ...

An unmitigated revamp of healthcare cybersecurity is coming in 2025, and experts warn that the compliance burden for organizations will be steep. Since 2005, healthcare organizations have been subject ...

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 ...

Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard speaks with Matthew Fisher, a partner at Mirick O'Connell and a specialist in healthcare law, about the proposed HIPAA rule changes. They discuss the ...

Providers, patient advocates and app developers broadly support a Trump-era rule that would make it easier to share patient health information, but they remain divided over how far the changes should ...

In a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the American Hospital Association said the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights rule regarding the use of ...