With the growth of EMR and health IT overall, the long awaited HIPAA Omnibus Rule was finalized by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and presented before the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for ...

The HIPAA Omnibus Rule places greater responsibility on business associates to safeguard patient information, says Susan McAndrew of the HHS Office for Civil Rights. "A major change is that we now are ...

Enacted in 1996, HIPAA was created to allow patients better access to their medical records and to have patients' records available to different doctors. In 2009, more regulations were implemented as ...

The Department of Health and Human Services issued an “omnibus” rule Thursday, comprehensively updating Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy and security regulations passed as ...

HIPAA rules and regulations tend to strike fear into the hearts of healthcare providers. This set of requirements is there for good reason – to protect patient confidentiality, reinforce the rights of ...

Significant changes have been made to the privacy and security obligations of providers with respect to patients’ protected health information with the release of the Omnibus Final Rule on January 17, ...

Here are some highlights from the omnibus final rule healthcare providers and covered entities should be mindful of to ensure compliance by Sept. 23. 1. The final rule expands patient rights by ...

Now that the presidential election is finally over, healthcare reform and the HITECH electronic health records incentive program look like they're here to stay. But there's still a big uncertainty ...