Senate Hearings Focus on Lack of HIPAA Enforcement, Final HITECH Rule

Rachel Grunberger writes: The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and Law recently held a hearing to discuss federal enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology …

The Identity Portability and Accountability Act of 2011

Last week, the NSTIC program office held the first of three outreach workshops. While a who’s who of the identerati (along with government and trade group representatives) discussed what kind of governance body NSTIC requires, there were a variety of…