This report series examines quarterly trends in life sciences venture investment. Key findings for Q2 2024 include: • Life sciences VC deal value reached $10.6 billion in Q2 2024, up more than 30% from Q1, which brings the...more
The Texas Attorney General is once again signaling the office’s intent to enforce the state’s privacy and consumer protection laws. According to a June 2024 press release, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton “launched a major...more
Generative AI is converging with every sector – and health care is no exception. With it, companies should keep up with the array of laws and regulations – existing and envisioned – that govern its use. Read on for highlights...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has updated its Health Breach Notification Rule that applies to non-HIPAA, consumer health data. Among the revisions, the FTC expanded or introduced key definitions and modified the...more
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U.S. antitrust enforcers launched a flurry of initiatives in the first half of 2024 to identify and prevent antitrust and other violations in life sciences and health care. Among these are two cross-agency Requests for...more
This report series examines quarterly trends in life sciences venture investment. Key findings for Q1 2024 include: • Life sciences VC deal value in Q1 totaled $7.8 billion, which represents a 22.1% increase in value from Q4...more
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a division of the Department of Homeland Security, has proposed a rule that would govern whether, when, and how companies in critical infrastructure sectors report...more
Legislators in Colorado have passed the first law in the United States meant to protect a consumer’s brainwaves. While advances in neurotechnology such as brain-computer interfaces that can translate a person’s thoughts into...more
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has issued a final rule updating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule in an effort to...more
Two new privacy laws regulating consumer health data in Nevada and Washington take effect March 31. These novel laws take an expansive view of “consumer health data” and cover much more data than you may expect....more
This report series examines quarterly trends in life sciences venture investment. Key findings for Q4 2023 include: • Life sciences VC deal value in Q4 2023 totaled $6.6 billion, representing a 25.0% decrease from the prior...more
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has announced a final rule (the Rule) updating the...more
The average cost of a data breach has reached an all-time high of $4.45 million, according to IBM. Regulatory requirements, scrutiny, and enforcement have continued to expand. As we kick off 2024, here are the key action...more
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) has issued new general compliance program guidance, marking the first time the agency has released this type of “reference guide for the health...more
This report series examines quarterly trends in life sciences venture investment. Key findings for Q3 2023 include:
Life sciences VC deal value in Q3 2023 totaled $7.7 billion, representing an uptick from last quarter...more
This report series examines quarterly trends in life sciences venture investment. Key findings for Q2 2023 include:
• Life sciences VC deal value in Q2 2023 totaled $6.7 billion across 384 deals, representing a slight...more
Connecticut is the third state to adopt consumer health data privacy protections, following Washington’s My Health My Data Act (“MHMD”) and Nevada’s new consumer health data privacy law. It is the first state, however, to...more
The Nevada legislature recently passed Senate Bill 370 (“Nevada’s Consumer Health Data Privacy Law”) aiming to impose broad requirements on collecting, using, and selling consumer health information. Nevada joins Washington...more
The state of Washington recently enacted My Health My Data (“MHMD”), a game-changing new consumer privacy law focused on health data. MHMD establishes an expansive notice and consent regime for consumer health data with...more
These days it’s easy to identify people using technology and databases, and that’s a problem if you are trying to comply with HIPAA or even GDPR because a lot of sensitive data eventually needs to be de-identified in a proper...more
Healthcare companies track visitors to websites and mobile apps with third-party technologies like cookies and pixels, but that widespread practice now comes with steadily growing risk. The Federal Trade Commission is...more
This report series examines quarterly trends in life sciences venture investment. Key findings for Q4 2022 include:
• Deal value reached $7.1 billion in Q4 across 392 deals, bringing the 2022 annual total to $38.0 billion...more
The last year has seen a multijurisdictional regulatory push for increased cybersecurity standards for medical devices. The new approaches, issued by regulatory authorities in the United States (U.S.), the United Kingdom (UK)...more
This report series examines quarterly trends in life sciences venture investment. Key findings for Q3 2022 include:
• The industry generated $6.2 billion in deal value across 352 deals in Q3, exhibiting further quarterly...more
This report series examines quarterly trends in life sciences venture investment. Key findings for Q2 2022 include:
• The industry generated $8.8 billion in deal value across 362 deals in Q2, a material decline from Q1, as...more