HIPAA Journal December 9, 2025
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and more than 100 U.S. hospital systems, healthcare provider organizations, and provider associations have called for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to withdraw its proposed updates to the HIPAA Security Rule.
The HIPAA Security Rule was enacted in 2002, nine years after HIPAA was signed into law, to establish security standards for electronic protected health information created, received, used, or maintained by a covered entity, with the requirements subsequently expanded to cover business associates of HIPAA-regulated entities. The Security Rule was written to be technology agnostic to avoid frequent rule changes in response to advances in technology; however, 22 years after its initial release, the HHS proposed a substantial...
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