What 2025 HIPAA Changes Mean to You
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Tue, 02/04/2025 – 04:49
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Thales comprehensive Data Security Platform helps you be compliant with 2025 HIPAA changes.
You are going about your normal day, following routine process at your healthcare organization, following the same business process you’ve followed for the last twelve years. You expect Personal Health Information (PHI) to be protected, thankfully due to HIPAA Compliance.
HIPAA forces organizations to build a security system for personal health information. You certainly wouldn’t print your personal health information and pass it out to anyone. HIPAA ensures that businesses treat your personal health information with extra care, encrypting it, restricting who can access it, and ensuring systems that store it are secure and continuously tested. Every time you receive medical care, HIPAA is working behind the scenes to keep your PHI safe from cybercriminals.
According to the Thales Data Threat Report, Healthcare and Life Sciences Edition, in 2023, among healthcare and life sciences respondents, human error (76%) is the leading reported cause of cloud data breaches, well ahead of a lack of MFA, the second highest, at 11%. To compound issues, identity and encryption management complexity is a serious issue. 60% of healthcare respondents have five or more key management systems in use.
What is HIPAA?
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a US federal law that created the national standards when it was first published to protect sensitive patient health information (PHI) from being disclosed without the patient’s consent or knowledge. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the HIPAA Privacy Rule to implement the requirements of HIPAA. The HIPAA Security Rule protects a subset of information covered by the Privacy Rule.
Who does it apply to?
Covered Entities: All entities accessing protected personal health information (PHI), including health plans, health insurance organizations, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, physicians, and dentists, among others.
Business Associates: Third-party service providers that create, receive, maintain, or transmit ePHI o
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