The University at Buffalo Information Technology (UBIT) operates as a covered entity as defined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights. HIPAA Regulation Text 45 CFR ...

Encryption — Addressable Doesn’t Mean Optional Addressable doesn't mean optional: Having an implementation plan can be helpful in case of an audit. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ...

DALLAS, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Zix Corporation (ZixCorp½), (Nasdaq: ZIXI), the leader in email encryption services, today announced that Sten-Tel, a ...

Ensuring high quality patient care is the top priority for healthcare providers. As a result, hospitals and private practices aim to optimize the patient experience by operating as efficiently as ...

The omnibus final rule that covers changes to privacy, security, breach notification and enforcement rules under HIPAA will not include a requirement for encrypting protected health information, an ...

An HHS administrative law judge upheld an HHS Office for Civil Rights finding requiring the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to pay $4,348,000 in civil penalties for HIPAA ...

Two final rules for the HITECH electronic health record incentive program strongly emphasize the value of risk assessments and encryption as measures for safeguarding patient information. See Also: AI ...

There's been a lot of hoopla surrounding the two proposed rules released last week defining and setting the standards for Stage 2 of meaningful use, and rightly so. This next stage of the Centers for ...