Learn about HIPAA, the U.S. act safeguarding healthcare data privacy and setting standards for medical information storage ...

MILWAUKEE - Having an opinion about privacy is easy; understanding what the law protects is a lot more difficult. "People believe it actually applies to them and protects them when, in many cases, it ...

Clym reports that HIPAA requires explicit authorization for sharing health data, not just cookie consent, highlighting gaps in current practices.

Editor’s Note: As workplaces reopen, many employers are grappling with whether to require employees to be vaccinated or to impose mask mandates. Some have faced resistance in the form of false claims ...

To ensure access to care, it is critical to protect patient privacy whenever possible. Health care workers at an urgent care center in Woodbridge, Virginia, keep careful patient records, April 2020 ...

Abortion advocates and Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to protect data on patients seeking abortion services, as concerns mount that clinic and hospital information could ...

The “P” in HIPAA doesn’t stand for privacy. It’s one of the first things a lot of experts will say when asked to clear up any misconceptions about the health data law. Instead, it stands for ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

An amended version of the bipartisan 21st Century Cure bill, which aims to advance medical innovation, has passed its first Congressional hurdle without any revisions ...

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