The laws aim to protect personal information that federal HIPAA rules don’t cover, including data collected through marketing ...

What Changed, Why It Matters, and What to Do Now - On November, 7, 2025, I spoke to the Massachusetts Health Information ...

Attorney Harry Margolis explains why this simple document can prevent medical mix-ups, protect family access, and simplify ...

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 ...

A recent decision from the Connecticut Supreme Court holds that HIPAA does not preempt state law negligence actions, and suggests state courts can look to federal HIPAA regulations as a guide to ...

I lead PR and communications at Municorn, where brand trust meets data protection. If customers doubt their health information is safe, there’s no brand to build. I’ve seen how breaches erode trust ...

The federal government is upping the ante on healthcare providers to strengthen their policies and procedures for protecting electronic health information. On March 26, the final Health Insurance ...

The preamble to the final rule implementing the privacy requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act explicitly invokes the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. "The need ...

The HIPAA Privacy and Security Omnibus final rule should bring some long-awaited clarification and certainty to marketing, fundraising and other aspects of ...

Can you go to prison for violating HIPAA even if you're not aware you're breaking the law? A U.S. appellate court says yes. See Also: Mastercard on Agentic Payments: How AI Agents, Tokenization, and ...

“These changes are consistent with, and arise in part from, the Department’s obligations under Executive Order 13563 to conduct a retrospective review of our existing regulations for the purpose of ...

Drilling down to the factual narrative that you need to extract from medical records can feel like spinning straw into gold.