Some healthcare providers already meet potential new HIPAA security requirements, but others may face significant challenges.

Major proposed changes to security guidance related to HIPAA compliance have been underway, with the expectation that ...

Key Takeaways Healthcare breaches have cost an eye‑watering $7.42 million per incident in 2025, and it’s not surprising that ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that strengthens the Security Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ...

The HIPAA Security Rule was originally promulgated over 20 years ago. While it historically provided an important regulatory floor for securing electronic protected health information, the Security ...

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 organizations face an unprecedented security crisis. Since 2018, the number of individuals affected by healthcare data breaches has nearly doubled—hitting 56 million last year. These ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking public comment as it plans to update its 2008 guidance for implementing the HIPAA Security Rule, which went into effect about 20 years ago ...

Among myriad acronyms in the healthcare industry, HIPAA is one of the most referenced. At the end of last year, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed major updates to this law — named ...

The HHS wants to update the HIPAA security rule for the first time in more than a decade to bolster healthcare cybersecurity, regulators said late last month. The Office for Civil Rights, which ...

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 ...