Unlike its counterpart on the privacy side, the HIPAA Security Rule has only rarely been updated, and not in the past 15 years. This is in spite of the fact that information security for health care providers is increasingly important, in an environment of hacking and ransomware attacks affecting millions of patients every year.
In this program, we will discuss the provisions of the new proposed HIPAA Security Rule issued in the waning days of the Biden Administration.
In particular, we will focus on: