The HIPAA Security Rule would get its first update since 2013 under a new proposal that would mandate basic security practices like multi-factor authentication, encryption, and network segmentation ...

The HHS wants to update the HIPAA security rule for the first time in ... Plus, the update would mandate more specific risk analyses, including a written review of its technology inventory and ...

it looked at only eight of the 180 HIPAA requirements and just two of the requirements included involved data security. "None were related to physical and technical security safeguards," officials ...

Last fall at the Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance Through HIPAA Security 2024 conference ... information systems and assessment of the risk level for each identified threat ...

The Proposed Rule seeks to strengthen the HIPAA Security Rule requirements in various ways, including: The Proposed Rule notably includes some requirements specific to business associates only.

Security threats are not a once-in-a-blue-moon thing for organizations small or large—from theft, to break-ins, to hacking: ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) aimed at enhancing cybersecurity protections for electronic ...

Healthcare CIOs and CISOs are monitoring the recent Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposal to update the HIPAA Security Rule. These ...

Healthcare buyers are going to start asking about HIPAA, compliance services and security upgrades like penetration testing. This is the time to design and market a healthcare specific offering to ...

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