A Wisconsin woman who was fired in September 2008 for accessing her estranged son’s medical records was reinstated last month after an arbitrator deemed the punishment [...]

Yesterday HHS published its breach notification rule for HIPAA covered entities. Today the Federal Trade Commission’s rule appeared in print, making it official also. The FTC [...]

Last week the industry got an early look at the Department of Health and Human Service’s much-anticipated data breach notification rule. Today the rule was published [...]

Update, September 2: HHS has posted new and revised program materials online: a transcript of its August 27 technical assistance conference, an FAQ, and a revised preliminary application [...]

A flurry of ARRA-related activity this week, in part driven by some August 18 deadlines for the data breach notification provisions. The Federal Trade Commission and [...]

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will publish grant and contract solicitations for comparative effectiveness research in the fall, according to a notice in today’s Federal [...]

[Editor's note, July 2010: The Office for Civil Rights has proposed modifications to HIPAA that would ease the release of deceased patient records.] A son calls [...]

In the August print issue, Journal writer Chris Dimick describes the challenges California healthcare organizations face in determining their responsibilities under tough new state law on [...]