The waiting is over. CMS published the final HIPAA claims attachment rule in the Federal Register on March 24, 2026, it took effect on May 26, and every covered entity now has until May 26, 2028 to comply. The rule sets national standards for electronic claims...
The federal government has pushed the finish line again. According to Reginfo.gov, the final version of the updated HIPAA Security Rule is now projected for July 2027, a year later than many compliance teams expected. The proposed requirements have not changed, so...
A cloud or on-premise fax system is HIPAA compliant only when it encrypts protected health information in transit with TLS and at rest with AES-256, keeps detailed audit trails, enforces access controls like SSO and MFA, and is covered by a signed Business Associate...
CMS wants to move parts of healthcare off the fax machine and onto FHIR-based APIs, with targets pointed at around October 1, 2027. That’s real, and it’s worth planning for. But roughly 75% of medical communication still travels by fax today, and CMS...
Quick answer: In late June 2026 federal health officials announced that the TEFCA network had crossed one billion health records exchanged, up from about ten million a year earlier, alongside tighter oversight of the networks that connect to it. That is real progress,...
