Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The past 2 years have brought forth some significant federal rules and laws that will directly affect the way ...

A long-overdue report on findings from a HIPAA compliance audit program conducted in 2016 and 2017 illustrates shortcomings that, unfortunately, are still common today. Those include the failure to ...

Everyone in healthcare knows that the next round of HIPAA audits is coming. Covered entities and business associates have long been advised to review and update their HIPAA security risk analyses, ...

The new HIPAA rules have higher fines--mandatory minimum fine of $10,000 for willful neglect of compliance. According to the officials, enforcement is now a priority and the healthcare entities need ...

Scotch Plains, NJ, July 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Snapscale (formerly BBC Global Services) a leading provider of HIPAA-compliant outsourcing solutions today announced the premier of the outsourcing ...

In 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) Director Melanie Fontes Rainer announced that OCR will resume auditing Health Information Portability and ...

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights is gearing up to resume its HIPAA compliance audit program this year, and auditors will examine business associates as well as ...

In examining how the Office of Civil Rights administered its periodic Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act audit program from January 2016 through December 2020, the U.S. Department of ...

EDISON, N.J., May 31, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- StrikeForce Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: SFOR), a cyber security company that provides next-gen cyber, data protection & Secure Video Conferencing ...

St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton, Mass., has agreed to pay $218,400 to settle an alleged HIPAA violation and to adopt a corrective action plan for its HIPAA compliance program. In November ...