Below is the list of blog posts with the “HIPAA” tag.

The U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was introduced in 1996 to protect the privacy and security of health information. It was one of the first sectoral security and privacy legislations in the United States. According to the Act, compliance guidelines had to be developed and regulated by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and enforced by its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) with voluntary compliance activities and civil money penalties.

The U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was introduced in 1996 to protect the privacy and security of health information. HIPAA’s Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification rules require healthcare providers and their partners to protect electronic protected health information (ePHI) through robust access controls, breach reporting, and documentation practices. A critical part of this compliance effort involves maintaining detailed audit logs that track who accessed, modified, or disclosed PHI, and retaining HIPAA logs for at least six years.