The Office for Civil Rights issued guidance on HIPAA rules regarding media and film crews in their facilities during the pandemic. 1. HHS previously relaxed enforcing some HIPAA regulations during the ...

Melanie Fontes Rainer, HHS OCR director, speaking at a HIPAA summit this week (Image: Marianne Kolbasuk McGee) As the final months of the Biden administration wrap up, regulators at the agency charged ...

Editor’s Note: As workplaces reopen, many employers are grappling with whether to require employees to be vaccinated or to impose mask mandates. Some have faced resistance in the form of false claims ...

This guide includes everything employers need to know about HIPAA requirements, as well as a HIPAA compliance checklist.

Seyfarth Synopsis: This past Monday, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its final rule aimed at ...

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on June 18, 2025, issued an order vacating the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care ...

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services announced the final omnibus rule for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act last week. Much has changed in 15 years since HIPAA was ...

As the Department of Health and Human Services weighs potential modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, regulators must consider aligning those changes with other ...

A recent decision from the Connecticut Supreme Court holds that HIPAA does not preempt state law negligence actions, and suggests state courts can look to federal HIPAA regulations as a guide to ...

Recent cases in Indiana have revealed the inconsistent and hard-to-decipher rules protecting patient records under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, known as HIPAA.

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AMARILLO, Texas — A federal court in Texas issued a preliminary injunction that partially halts the Department of Health and Human Services from enforcing a new HIPAA rule that restricts the ...