The public is going to start hearing a lot more about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. Hospitals and clinics have been preparing for it for three years. "Pretty much, ...

With Fitbit’s recent announcement of its plans to purchase Twine Health, a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based health management platform, applications of wearable technology in health care are poised to ...

Ajay Prasad is the CEO of GMR Web Team, a full-service healthcare digital marketing agency focused on patient acquisition and retention. Today, inclusivity is a prominent theme in healthcare, and its ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has been an outspoken critic of vaccines and masks to stop the spread of COVID-19. After she tweeted that the disease was a threat only to people who are obese or ...

Nothing has had more bearing on health IT throughout the '00s than Title II of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, otherwise known as the administrative simplification ...

A working group made up of members from three organizations plans this month to release guidelines for complying with the data security requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and ...

NPR's Kelsey Snell speaks with Deven McGraw, cofounder of consumer health data firm Ciitizen, to clear up misconceptions about HIPAA rules and protections. Another misconception that crops up a lot in ...