Privacy & Information Security Law Blog

In April 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights announced a HIPAA enforcement settlement with Comprehensive Neurology, PC, a New York-based neurology practice, in connection with a ransomware incident that compromised the electronic protected health information of approximately 6,800 individuals.

On April 23, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights announced a HIPAA enforcement action against a health care network following a phishing attack that exposed patients’ electronic protected health information, which resulted in a $600,000 monetary settlement and two-year corrective action plan.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights recently announced two HIPAA enforcement actions involving failures to safeguard electronic protected health information in violation of the HIPAA Security Rule.

On January 21, 2025, the Council of the EU adopted the European Health Data Space Regulation.

On December 27, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) to update the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Security Rule.  The NPRM is intended to strengthen cybersecurity protections for electronic protected health information (“ePHI”) in light of increasing cybersecurity threats to the health care sector.