Healthcare IT News December 30, 2024
Andrea Fox

The agency seeks to make its first HIPAA Security Rule update since 2013 to clarify what health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, providers and their business associates must do to protect the security of electronic protected health information.

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Office for Civil Rights have announced they will be soliciting comments on a proposal to modify the Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009.

To strengthen healthcare cybersecurity and address concerns over the alarming growth in the number of breaches reported to OCR, the proposed modifications – to be...

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