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Protecting Patient Data: HIPAA, Cybersecurity & IRM Challenges Facing Healthcare in 2026

REDE Consulting · Sep 10, 2026 · article

The Challenge Protected health information (PHI) breaches remain the top compliance concern for healthcare organizations, and regulators treat them accordingly: PHI violations are roughly seven times more likely to trigger regulatory action than billing fraud and abuse violations. HIPAA's 2025 updates introduced stricter cybersecurity requirements, raising the bar for what 'reasonable safeguards' actually means in practice. At the same time, healthcare compliance teams are being asked to move...

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