HHS launches notification of HIPAA Security Rule upgrade
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Office for Civil Rights have actually revealed they will be obtaining talk about a proposition to customize the Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009.
To enhance health care cybersecurity and address issues over the worrying development in the variety of breaches reported to OCR, the proposed adjustments-- to be released in the Federal Register on January 6, 2025-- objective to attend to substantial modifications in innovation, breach patterns, enforcement, finest practices and methods for securing ePHI and take into consideration court choices t...