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Digital health care companies have navigated a wave of new developments at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the past few years. With new leadership in the Trump Administration, the FTC may be poised to change some of...more
Recent federal enforcement actions have brought home the lesson that there’s really no acceptable reason for denying a patient timely access to medical records. Last year, for example, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR)...more
It’s not immediately obvious why someone would want to disclose a health care test result as part of a job application. But one such request spurred a Pennsylvania entity to provide a lot more than that: it sent her whole...more
Recognizing the increasing number of successful cyberattacks targeting health care organizations and their valuable patient data, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is calling for enhancements to the HIPAA audit...more
On November 20, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released the “Nursing Facility ICPG,” an industry-specific compliance program guidance for nursing facilities....more
The HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS) are notifying 946,801 people whose protected health information or other personally identifiable information...more
Cyber incidents have been growing at an exponential rate in recent years. A recent report from the Identity Theft Resource Center found that there were over one billion data breach victims in Q2 of 2024, which is around five...more
Who will notify the potentially millions of individuals whose information might have been jeopardized by the massive cyberattack on Change Healthcare? Since the affiliate of UnitedHealth Group (UHG) first reported the...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently published an executive summary (Report) outlining key enforcement activities of the Health Insurance Portability and...more
يُعد نظام حماية البيانات الشخصية (النظام) أول نظام شامل لحماية البيانات في المملكة العربية السعودية. من المتوقع أن تبدأ الهيئة السعودية للبيانات والذكاء الاصطناعي (الهيئة) في الإنفاذ الكامل للنظام اعتبارًا من 14 سبتمبر 2024،...more
2023 marked a pivotal moment in US data privacy and cybersecurity, characterized by substantial regulatory and legislative advances at the international, federal, and state levels. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took a...more
A legal case that involves any type of injury, illness, or healthcare means accessing medical records, either for your client or the opposition. Regardless of whether you use them for direct evidence or background...more
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently submitted two annual reports to Congress setting forth a summary of complaints and breaches reported to the OCR during...more
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposes redefining “breach” to include inadvertent disclosures of customer proprietary network information. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) also proposes to update the...more
Proposed changes to the federal substance use disorder law will increase provider efficiency and alignment with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). In a move that seeks to decrease administrative...more
Perkins Coie's Privacy & Security practice maintains a comprehensive chart that summarizes state laws regarding security breach notification. The chart is for informational purposes only and is intended as an aid in...more
Dive into a broad spectrum of topics affecting healthcare organizations. Explore the latest laws, regulations, and developments to help you effectively manage your organization’s privacy compliance program. Our Academies are...more
Why does this topic matter to organisations? The GDPR is now the main instrument governing EU data protection law across all Member States. The Directive, which was almost 20 years old, has been repealed. However, the...more
Overview of key issues - The GDPR raises a number of key issues that organisations should consider, including the following...more
It is not a matter of "if" but "when" an employer will be required to notify employees of a security breach. Forty-seven states require employers to notify employees when defined categories of personal information, including...more
Three bills that will update California’s data breach notification requirements have been signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown. The bills impose specific requirements on providing breach notification to consumers, add a...more
On October 8, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed A.B. 964 and S.B. 570 into law, a pair of bills that amended the Golden State’s data breach notification statute (Ca. Civ. Code § 1798.82). The amendments...more
Last week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law three bills that revise California’s data breach notification statute. The bills, which take effect January 1, 2016, establish specific formatting requirements for...more
On October 6, California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation updating California’s data breach notice statute for the third time in three years. The news was quickly overshadowed by the CJEU’s decision invalidating the...more
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) must improve its oversight and enforcement of patient information privacy and security rules by “covered entities” and their business associates under the Health Information Portability...more