Data Collection, Healthcare, Personally Identifiable Information

Friendly Reminder - Finalize and Post Your Consumer Health Data Privacy Notice Before March 31

Quarles & Brady LLP on 2/29/2024

Friendly reminder – the Washington My Health My Data Act (“WMHMDA”) compliance deadline for regulated entities to post their consumer health data privacy policy is March 31, 2024 (June 30, 2024 for small businesses). A...more

Health Care Workers Engaged in Treatment, Payment, or Operations Excluded by BIPA

Epstein Becker & Green on 12/28/2023

As previously noted, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has invited a great deal of litigation, often resulting in interpretations favorable toward plaintiffs. As a result, we advise employers who use...more

BIPA Excludes Health Care Workers Engaged in Treatment, Payment, or Operations

Epstein Becker & Green on 12/15/2023

As previously noted, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has invited a great deal of litigation, often resulting in interpretations favorable toward plaintiffs. As a result, we advise employers who use...more

Illinois Supreme Court: Finger-Scan Information Collected by Healthcare Providers to Access Medications Is Exempt From BIPA...

McDermott Will & Emery on 12/5/2023

On November 30, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously held in Mosby et al. v. The Ingalls Memorial Hospital et al. that when biometrics of healthcare employees are collected in the course of providing medical services,...more

Privacy Briefs: November 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 11/10/2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 11 (November, 2023) The American Hospital Association (AHA) is urging federal lawmakers to intervene with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) so that hospitals and health systems can...more

U.S. Senator requests information on ways to improve privacy protections of health data

Hogan Lovells on 9/12/2023

Adding to the growing trend of policymakers interested in regulating health and wellness data, last week U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy requested stakeholder feedback to help identify solutions to modernize HIPAA and ensure all...more

Diving into the Washington My Health My Data Act - Part Three: Broad Scope of Consumer Health Data

Quarles & Brady LLP on 6/14/2023

This is Part Three in a series of legal updates on the Washington My Health My Data Act (“WMHMDA”) where Quarles continues its deep dive into the various factors and intricacies of WMHMDA that are creating tidal waves in the...more

My Health, My Data Act: Washington State’s New Health Data Privacy Law Has a Nationwide Reach

Woods Rogers on 5/31/2023

Washington state’s My Health, My Data Act (the Act), signed into law in April 2023, is a broad health data privacy law designed to protect consumer health data that falls outside the scope of HIPAA, such as health-related...more

Privacy Briefs: May 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 5/12/2023

Five former Memphis-based hospital employees and another man have pled guilty to unlawfully disclosing patient information in violation of HIPAA, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee Kevin Ritz announced....more

My Health, My Data, My Class Action Lawsuit: Why the Washington My Health My Data Act Deserves EVERY Company’s Attention

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP on 4/25/2023

To say there’s been a lot of new privacy law in the last decade is an understatement. For those of us who think we’ve “seen it all,” many of these new laws arrive and elicit a sense of challenge (for the optimists) or mild...more

International Privacy Laws and Clinical Trials

Butler Snow LLP on 9/20/2021

Recent developments in international privacy laws have complicated the conduct of clinical trials outside of the United States. Since the privacy law of the European Union – the General Data Protection Regulation or “GDPR” –...more

CCPA Amendments – What did California Actually Do?

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 10/18/2019

The rush for California to get all of the “rules of the road” ready for next year has seemed to cause a bit of confusion with California’s privacy law. Draft regulations were published the same day the Governor signed into...more

Collaborative Transformation - Focus on Innovation Centers - Avoiding Pitfalls in Data-Focused Collaborations, Ventures and...

McDermott Will & Emery on 10/4/2019

There are myriad opportunities for hospitals and health systems (HHSs) to engage in data-focused collaborations with other stakeholders in the healthcare industry. These collaborations include, to an increasing extent,...more

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