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 ...

A reorganization of the federal office that enforces health privacy and security has close observers worried that it will ...

If finalized in its current form, the Proposed Rule would require covered entities — health plans, health care clearinghouses and health care providers who transmit information electronically in ...

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 ...

In 2026, sweeping updates to the HIPAA Security Rule are replacing flexible “addressable” safeguards with mandatory technical controls, including multi-factor authentication, encryption, and ...

Hospital cyber crackdown explained details HHS' proposed HIPAA Security Rule updates, including mandatory encryption and 72-hour system restoration.

The Biden Administration’s Office for Civil Rights delivered on its promise to propose an update to the HIPAA Security Rule. Our Health Care and Privacy, Cyber ...

Doctors in a meeting (Getty Images) The Department of Health and Human Services is responding to a growing threat of cyberattacks against the healthcare industry. Healthcare was the most breached ...

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In recent years, health care organizations and the vendors that support them have been prime targets for cyber attacks. Indeed, just last year, the ransomware attack on the health care clearinghouse ...

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