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Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a bulletin with guidance concerning the use of online tracking technologies by covered entities ...

Editor’s note: Steven W. Teppler is a partner and chair of the Cybersecurity and Data Privacy practice group at Mandelbaum Barrett PC in Roseland, New Jersey. Carly ...

On April 22, 2024, the federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a final rule enhancing privacy protections relating ...

In recent years, health care organizations and the vendors that support them have been prime targets for cyber attacks. Indeed, just last year, the ransomware attack on the health care clearinghouse ...

PORTAGE, Mich., May 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BASIC is proud to announce the launch of a new HIPAA Compliance service, adding to their already exceptional suite of HR and Compliance solutions for ...

The newly proposed Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule may look very different once it becomes official as concerns loom. Earlier this year, the Federal Register ...

Starting in 2026, HIPAA will require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all systems accessing electronic protected health information, ending the ‘addressable’ loophole. This shift means healthcare ...

The US government has published plans to update the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule, in a bid to address surging healthcare data breaches. The ...

New HIPAA Security Rule updates in 2026 mandate encryption, multi-factor authentication, rapid breach notifications, and annual vendor verification for all cloud storage containing patient data.