Proposed rules to protect health data in an era of abortion bans fall short By Eric D. Perakslis , Katie D. McMillan , and Jessilyn Dunn May 12, 2023 Reprints ...

Patients have a right to privacy when it comes to their medical information, even when they travel to another state for an abortion, IVF, birth control or other types of reproductive health care ...

President Joe Biden's administration issued a final rule on Monday aimed at strengthening privacy protections for women seeking abortions by banning the disclosure of protected health information ...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story HHS’s final rule on protecting abortion records The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its ...

Matt Bowman, senior counsel with the group, praised the decision in a statement, saying the 2024 rule "would have weaponized laws about privacy that have nothing to do with abortion or gender ...

In addition to protecting your privacy when actively accessing an abortion, Americans might be concerned about privacy when protesting for reproductive rights. "Speaking up in support of abortion ...

On Monday, the Biden Administration announced new rules to protect patients and health care providers from legal investigations, particularly around abortion and reproductive care. The rule also ...

Both rules were issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the federal law on patient privacy.

The state of Texas sued the Biden administration in a bid to block a rule designed to protect the privacy of women living in states that ban abortion who travel over state lines for the procedure.

Missouri and other states are challenging HIPAA's abortion privacy rule ... The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act — or HIPAA — established in 1996 to protect the privacy ...

Biden rule protecting privacy for abortions likely unlawful, U.S. federal judge in Texas decrees. ... anti-abortion extremists want to eviscerate every protection left for patients who need an ...