The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced a settlement with Guam Memorial Hospital Authority (GMHA), a public hospital on the U.S. Territory, ...

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 ...

A rule proposed by HHS would amend HIPAA to allow certain covered entities to disclose the identities of individuals whose mental health conditions may disqualify them from owning a gun. Under the new ...

Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) and Rep. Peter Defazio (D-OR) sent a letter to US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Sylvia Burwell asking her to help make HIPAA regulatory guidance clearer for app ...

GREENSBORO, NC—Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD, a medico-legal expert and the founder of Medical Justice, is calling attention to a landmark federal court ruling that struck down the Department of Health and ...