HIPAA complaints and breaches increased from 2017 to 2021, but the agency in charge of auditing compliance said it doesn’t have the resources to handle the uptick. The HHS Office for Civil Rights, or ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

A report released on Friday found that HIPAA complaints and breaches spiked between 2017 and 2021, with the agency in charge of handling the notices saying it lacks sufficient resources to properly ...

A lawsuit claims Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. violated a 1986 law by failing to set up a task force to make childhood ...

The Office for Civil Rights is not checking whether health care providers and other people who handle Americans’ sensitive data are complying with federal health privacy law, a new report from the U.S ...