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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this episode of What’s the Tea in L&E, Leah Stiegler sits down with Liz Heddleston, chair of Woods Rogers’ healthcare industry team, to unpack ...

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 ...

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 ...

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