The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets out several guidelines for the adoption of portability and accountability rules regarding patient information. These guidelines ...
The Department of Health and Human Services has updated its HIPAA security risk assessment tool to better assist small and mid-sized healthcare entities and their vendors in performing a comprehensive ...
The current HIPAA Security rule defines Risk Analysis as: “Conducting an accurate and thorough assessment of the potential risk and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity and availability ...
The 2026 HIPAA Security Rule update will introduce major new requirements, including universal encryption of electronic ...
The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking comments on how it can improve its security risk assessment tool, which is designed to help smaller organizations conduct assessments as required ...