HIPAA is a law that protects your medical information and history. Medical providers like doctors and insurance companies are beholden to HIPAA.

Since the HIPAA compliance date for privacy was implemented in April 2003, nearly 100,000 complaints falling under this umbrella have been submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Baycare Health System in Clearwater, Florida, will pay $800,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights to settle allegations of potential HIPAA violations. OCR ...

This guide includes everything employers need to know about HIPAA requirements, as well as a HIPAA compliance checklist.

Jim Hook, director of consulting services at the Fox Group, LLC, said the single largest problem he sees with risk assessments is with clients’ electronic records systems. When an office applies for ...

Health tech company Verily is facing a lawsuit filed by former employee Ryan Sloan alleging that the company wrongly terminated him after he escalated complaints that the team engaged in practices ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced a settlement with Deer Oaks – The Behavioral Health Solution, a Texas-based ...

A group of five Cadia Healthcare rehabilitation, skilled nursing and long-term care facilities in Delaware have agreed to a settlement with HHS ...