WASHINGTON, Aug. 25-- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release on Aug. 24, 2023: Today, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and ...

This morning ACT -- The App Association and a number of its mobile health company members sent a letter to Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) to encourage Congress to push HHS to make HIPAA regulations clearer ...

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, ...

HHS’ Office for Civil Rights rolled out additional tools and initiatives addressing the opioid crisis to fulfill the 21st Century Cures Act. OCR works to ensure patients and their families have access ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12-- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release on Sept. 11, 2023: Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Department of Health and Human Services released a final rule on the data privacy provisions for reproductive health care ...

On August 26, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) displayed in the Federal Register a delegation of authority from Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to the Office for Civil ...

The Biden administration has proposed a new rule that would ban providers, health insurers and other entities covered by the HIPAA privacy law from sharing patient information that could be used to ...

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 ...

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 ...