Health Information HIPAA Leadership 
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 10, 2025
Despite the stringent requirements outlined in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), enforcement remains alarmingly limited. Compounding this issue, OCR may now have even fewer resources to enforce HIPAA regulations amid shifting federal priorities and ongoing budget cuts in Washington.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 7, 2025
Proposed Changes Require Strong Cybersecurity The newly proposed changes to the 2013 HIPAA Security Rule published yesterday in the U.S. A risk analysis must include all systems, not only the systems that process health information, because other systems could be compromised to allow access to those containing health information.
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Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 24, 2024
Currently, one such tricky area is health information management. To learn more about this, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them what are the key challenges in maintaining compliance with regulatory standards, such as HIPAA , in the context of health information management?
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Many people in the healthcare IT and HIM communities have been anticipating some changes to HIPAA coming soon. As Rita Bowen from MRO recently shared, “the rule is 20+ years old and the practice of medicine has changed, the maintenance of the health information, etc. so yes, it is time for a face lift.”
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 30, 2019
As we head into 2020, I reached out to a number of people in Health Information Management (HIM) and Health Information Technology (HIT) to hear their thoughts on these hot topics: Social Determinants of Health (SDoH), Privacy and Security of Health Information, Medical Coding Standards, and Patient Matching.
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom. HIPAA and 24 CFR Part II at the federal level and expanded rule-making at the state level) and the patient’s information sharing consent directives (e.g.,
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 20, 2023
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) is a federal law that safeguards sensitive patient health information (PHI) from being disclosed. But, more importantly, know how to implement them in a HIPAA-compliant way to keep patients and their data safe.
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