On a cool spring evening in 2017, Law Professor Jennifer Oliva (an author of this piece) received a harrowing phone call from a stranger. “They are going to kill me,” said a man we’ll call Brian. A ...

On April 26, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a final rule to strengthen privacy protections for people accessing and providing ...

Privacy incidents at technology companies, hospitals and other healthcare organizations captured public attention last month. While media outlets reported on the ...

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 ...