CEO SUMMARY: Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are proposing significant changes in what observers are calling a major revision to HIPAA’s requirements for protected health information (PHI) and cybersecurity. HHS issued a statement that the objective of these changes was to ease provider compliance and update cybersecurity in response to […]
HHS Revises HIPAA Privacy, Security Rule
Major changes to privacy and cybersecurity are proposed; public comment ends March 7, 2025
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XXXII, No. 2 - January 27, 2025 Issue
- Tags: Biden Administration, cyberattacks, Cybersecurity, Department of Health and Human Services, electronic protected health information, encryption, ePHI, Federal Register, Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, Health Insurance Portability and v bAccountability Act, HHS, HIPAA, HIPAA Cybersecurity Act, HIPAA Privacy Rule, malware, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, NPRM, OCR, Office for Civil Rights, PHI, protected health information, The HIPAA Journal
