On July 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published a final rule...more
7/12/2024
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week released final amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to further protect the privacy of protected health information (PHI) related to reproductive health care....more
4/29/2024
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") issued a concept paper describing its overarching strategy to address healthcare cybersecurity. The concept paper builds on the Biden-Harris Administration's National...more
12/18/2023
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While health care providers have been required to comply with the 21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking Rule (the Rule) since April 5, 2021, as of yet there is no enforcement mechanism in place with respect to the Rule...more
11/2/2023
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In January, we wrote about how new comprehensive state consumer data privacy laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), apply to healthcare providers. At the time five states had enacted such laws:...more
On April 27, 2023, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed into law the My Health My Data Act (the "Act"), which will regulate the collection, use, and disclosure of "consumer health data" ("Consumer Health Data" or "CHD"). The...more
5/2/2023
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HIPAA-covered entities must notify the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of "small" breaches of unsecured protected health information that were discovered during calendar-year 2022 no...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a bulletin on December 1, 2022, clarifying that "regulated entities are not permitted to use tracking technologies in a manner that would...more
In two weeks, on October 6, 2022, the scope of the 21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking Rule expands to prohibit health care providers from blocking or interfering with patient access to any electronic information in a...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced four enforcement resolutions at the end of March 2022, with issues ranging from the misuse of protected health information (PHI)...more
Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance. This year’s seminar will take place virtually on March 15, March 17, March 22, and...more
2/14/2022
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Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance. This year’s seminar will take place virtually on March 15, March 17, March 22, and...more
2/11/2022
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Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance. This year’s seminar will take place virtually on March 15, March 17, March 22, and...more
2/10/2022
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Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance. This year’s seminar will take place virtually on March 15, March 17, March 22, and...more
2/9/2022
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The 21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking Rule's applicability date of April 5, 2021, is just around the corner. Nevertheless, healthcare providers are still struggling with understanding their obligations under the new...more
On January 21, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published proposed changes to the privacy rule (Privacy Rule) of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This Notice of Proposed...more
As the November 2 compliance date quickly approaches, healthcare providers are finding that tackling the new "information blocking" regulations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requires substantial...more
Telehealth is an essential tool in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic as well as in treating other ailments during this time. The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently issued a...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become part of our daily lives, from greeting us in the morning through smart home devices, creating shopping lists, playing music, setting timers, and alerting us of a traffic jam on our...more
News broke last month that Google partnered with the second-largest health system in the U.S., Ascension Healthcare, to collect and analyze the health information of millions of patients in a program code-named "Project...more
In a Rare Imposition of HIPAA Civil Monetary Penalties (CMPs) Rather than Settlement, What to Accept May Have Been the Question -
On October 23, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights...more
Consistent with the Administration’s broader effort to reduce regulatory burdens within the healthcare industry, the Sprint Regulations include proposals designed to remove barriers to the widespread adoption of cybersecurity...more
March 1, 2019 is the date by which HIPAA covered entities must notify the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of “small” breaches of unsecured protected health information that were...more
When a patient publicly disparages a health care provider, HIPAA leaves the health care provider in a seemingly impossible situation. If the health care provider does not respond and dispute the allegation, then its...more
Recent statements at the 27th National HIPAA Summit suggest that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) may be changing its position and expecting a greater level of vendor due...more