What Rules Were Added to HIPAA: A Complete Timeline
When Congress passed HIPAA in 1996, the law was barely about privacy at all. It was a health insurance portability bill — designed to help people
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When Congress passed HIPAA in 1996, the law was barely about privacy at all. It was a health insurance portability bill — designed to help people
A Law Nobody Read in 1996 Now Costs Organizations Millions When President Clinton signed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act on August 21, 1996,
A hospital in Phoenix gets slapped with a $1.7 million penalty for failing to protect patient records. The year is 2023. But rewind two
A Law Signed in 1996 That Didn't Really Bite Until Years Later Here's a question I get surprisingly often from compliance
When OCR investigates a covered entity and discovers years of noncompliance, one of the most common — and least persuasive — defenses is confusion about when HIPAA
In 2023, OCR settled with a dental practice for $350,000 over Security Rule violations that had persisted since 2016 — failures the practice might have
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