Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 243: HIPAA Compliance and Potential Changes with Shannon Lipham of Maynard Nexsen
Hybrid Workforces and Compliance with Sheila Limmroth
HIPPA: Privacy & Security and Potential Rule Changes
Compliance Perspective: What's New in Healthcare Privacy
The healthcare ecosystem has closed the book on a volatile 2025, and HIPAA enforcement has moved into 2026 with sharper edges, wider apertures, and higher stakes. Regulators spent 2025 refining the tools they use, broadening...more
Why Now? The Rising Cyber Threats Driving HIPAA Reform- In December 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) proposed the first significant update to the HIPAA Security Rule...more
The 2025 Top Ten list reflects a regulatory environment in significant transition. Last year’s healthcare privacy and security landscape presented extraordinary challenges for compliance professionals, marked by sweeping...more
HCCA's Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy is a three-and-a-half-day interactive education program with a focus on the vast body of privacy laws and regulations in place to help you protect PHI and other critical data. Our...more
Grounded in the OIG’s General Compliance Program Guidance and DOJ’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs, our immersive, three-and-a-half-day, classroom-style Healthcare Basic Compliance Academy equips compliance...more
As we march closer to World Data Privacy Day on January 28, it’s a good time to take stock of recent privacy developments involving health care delivery....more
The January 2026 Cybersecurity Newsletter released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights focuses on the importance of “system hardening” methods to help protect electronic protected...more
As we have discussed in prior posts, AI-enabled smart glasses are rapidly evolving from niche wearables into powerful tools with broad workplace appeal — but their innovative capabilities bring equally significant legal and...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently released its January 2026 Cybersecurity Newsletter, focusing on system hardening and security baselines as critical components of...more
Welcome to our first issue of 2026 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. We have been publishing The Health Record for three years and we hope you find it informative and helpful. We appreciate you...more
Paula Stannard, the newish director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), plans to continue two enforcement initiatives with which covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs) likely are familiar—but she’s...more
All readers of The Health Record understand the importance of complying with HIPAA’s Privacy, Security and Breach notification rules. But where do violations most often occur?...more
The January 2026 OCR Cybersecurity Newsletter is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights’ latest installment in its periodic series translating HIPAA Security Rule expectations into practical,...more
This summary highlights recent 2025 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enforcement actions by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the risks they...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere you look now, boasting an ability to streamline workflow and boost efficiency—and the health care industry is no exception. Whether used for billing, patient care, or diagnostic...more
New bill, proposed by Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP), purports to apply the privacy and security practices under the HITECH Act, to entities that process non...more
Our Health Care and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy groups review the status of the proposed update to the HIPAA Security Rule....more
Compliance issues can quickly escalate into compliance nightmares, with serious implications for patient safety, legal liability, and an organization’s reputation. Among the most common compliance nightmares are cyberattacks,...more
In the fast-paced and critical healthcare services field, patients expect robust adherence to security safeguards for their personal data and electronic protected health information (ePHI). Especially since patient data is...more
Ideal for professionals with some compliance knowledge and experience, HCCA’s Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy offers practitioners a deeper understanding of effective compliance management in a healthcare setting. The...more
Growing up, my family played an unusual game around the dinner table. After sharing about our days, my dad (also a health care attorney) would ask my sisters and me to argue. He’d pick a topic, such as why my younger sister...more
HIPAA privacy and security requirements are complex, and the failure to comply can be costly. When a security incident involving protected health information (PHI) occurs, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,...more
Whenever the topic of health and medical data comes up, there is often a prevailing assumption that this information is subject to the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) just by virtue of...more
In November 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights announced a new enforcement initiative focusing on the requirement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of...more