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State privacy and confidentiality laws (such as California's) can add to the HIPAA compliance burden when handling protected health information (PHI).Data breaches are becoming increasingly [...]

American Telemedicine Association President-Elect Ed Brown, M.D., founder and CEO of the Ontario Telemedicine Network, coined this phrase at the American Telemedicine Association annual meeting.

Michael H Cohen joins the advisory Board of the Information System Security Association – Los Angeles Chapter – bringing expertise in HIPAA / patient privacy, confidentiality and security.

A federal court in Indiana rules that patient's HIPAA and state privacy claims could stand, based on the allegation that a physician shared information about the patient's medical condition with [...]

The FTC put out a press release on a settlement regarding data breaches on mobile smartphones and cellphones.

HHS has issued a sample business associate agreement under the Omnibus Rule, with caveats.

The HIPAA Omnibus rule makes a number of additional important changes to breach analysis in case of a breach of unsecured PHI.

The Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement, and Breach Notification Rules under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act and the Genetic [...]

The new HIPAA Omnibus Rule requires that some changes to the rules about business associate agreements must be made.

The HIPAA / HITECH Privacy Rule has been changed.Under the Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement, and Breach Notification Rules under the Health Information Technology for [...]