The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) at the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently issued final regulations (“Reproductive Health Care Rule”) under the Health Insurance Portability ...

On April 26, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published a Final Rule that adds protections under the Health Insurance ...

Credit: Getty Images The rule aims to promote trust and open communication between patients and their health care providers. The “HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support ...

Patients have a right to privacy when it comes to their medical information, even when they travel to another state for an abortion, IVF, birth control or other types of reproductive health care, ...

Any entity handling personal electronic healthcare information therefore should take the initiative to ensure compliance.

Following the Dobbs decision, many states enacted their own privacy and consumer protection laws that may impose additional or stricter obligations on covered entities when handling reproductive ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New rule will protect those seeking, obtaining, providing or facilitating lawful reproductive health care. The ...

Suppose you're 16 weeks pregnant and thus ineligible to legally get an abortion in the state of Florida, so you fly to Illinois where it's still legal and have the procedure done there. Can Florida ...

The decades-old federal law protecting the privacy of individual health information is threatened by multiple lawsuits that seek to throw out a rule restricting disclosure of information in criminal ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has reached a ...

Agency: "Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services." SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS ...