The Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule was issued to protect a person's individually identifiable health information and addresses ...

Healthcare fintech firm HealthEquity is warning that it suffered a data breach after a partner's account was compromised and used to access the company's systems to steal protected health information.

The Department of Veterans Affairs delivers health care to millions of veterans. In the process, VA uses external service ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently published an executive summary (Report) outlining key enforcement activities of the Health Insurance ...

There is controversy about what is an acceptable transmission of patient information by fax under HIPAA's medical privacy rule. If an insurance company requests a copy of a claim by fax, is this ...

What is HIPAA? What information about COVID-19 cases is being released? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a federal law enacted in 1996 that required the U.S. Department of ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (the “HHS”) recently issued a final rule (the “Final Rule”) amending the Health Insurance Portability and ...

McLaren Healthcare, based in Grand Blanc, Michigan, sent notification letters this month to 743,131 to patients whose personal information and protected health information were exposed during a ...

One of the county’s largest mental health service providers says the protected health information of some clients was shared without authorization. Metrocare Services reported that nearly 8,600 ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Thousands of Central Oregonians soon will receive letters in the mail to inform them of a data breach at TriZetto Provider Solutions last fall that may have exposed the personal ...