Patients’ protected health information and personally identifiable information are exposed. When clearinghouses and health care payment systems are targeted, billing and payment issues can ...

Providers must inform Soldiers when they will share information with the commander. Specific procedures for transmitting PHI to commanders are listed in OTSG/MEDCOM Policy Memo 10-042, issued on ...

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Healthcare providers may share patient information with anyone as necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health and safety of a person or the public – consistent ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act makes sure that doctors and other entities such as insurance providers cannot share your health information without your explicit consent.

In this installment of our blog series on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) HIPAA Security Rule updates in its January 6 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), we will ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights has released new guidance aimed at patient privacy in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v.

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Ongoing healthcare data breaches have eroded patients' trust in the ability of providers and health plans to protect their data. A recent Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Politico ...

Six months later, in June 2021, the FTC finalized a settlement that required Flo to obtain the affirmative consent of its app’s users before sharing their personal health information with others.

The shared information includes protected health data from every Apple Health enrollee in the state, officials said, totaling about 1.7 million people.