HIPAA’s New Privacy Rule: Strengthening Reproductive Health Confidentiality in 2024
An important first step toward enhancing the privacy of reproductive health information is the recently amended HIPAA Privacy Rule. The aforementioned modifications aim to modify the manner in which covered entities manage protected health information concerning reproductive healthcare. Recognizing the Final Rule and Its Effects Almost a year after publishing a Notice of Proposed Rule-making […]
HIPAA Inception & Its Future
HIPAA’s Inception: A New Era for Healthcare Privacy August 21, 1996, saw the beginning of implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which revolutionized the healthcare industry. HIPAA initially aimed to enhance the accountability and portability of health insurance, but it quickly came to be associated with patient data security. The Dawn […]
