The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, is a law that ensures your privacy and security by protecting your health information. The law "offers robust safeguards for ...

Protecting patient and employee health information has become more complex. Technology is, and likely always will be, a fundamental part of the healthcare system. While computers make it easier for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No, HIPAA protects only health care information that is held by specific kinds of health care providers. For example, health care ...

The term “HIPAA violation” can conjure up images of large-scale data breaches. But health care providers need to be aware that, in the midst of the federal government’s increased focus on fraud in the ...

If you’re being interviewed and a journalist asks you if you’re vaccinated, is that a violation of HIPAA? California government and healthcare employees will soon be required to show proof they’ve ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s Privacy Rule is a federal law prohibiting health care providers, businesses and the people working with ...

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The federal information blocking rules went into effect about 10 days ago. As providers’ thoughts turn to compliance, there is one measure that can give us a sense of how they will fare: their ...

From the Spring 2003 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 12. From the Spring 2003 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 12. When University of Texas Longhorn running back Cedric Benson hurt his ...