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On June 25, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights' (HHS) HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care took effect, enhancing HIPAA privacy protections for protected health information (PHI) relating to an individual's reproductive health care. This new rule modifies certain privacy and security protections provided by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and its related regulations as they apply to the use and disclosure of PHI that relates to "reproductive health care" (the HIPAA RHC Rule).

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