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Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 211: Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks for the Healthcare Industry with Brandon Robinson of Maynard Nexsen
The Privacy Insider Podcast Ep. 7: David, Goliath, and Data Privacy Part II: Max Schrems
When AI Meets PI: Assessing and Governing AI from a Privacy Perspective
Navigating Emerging Privacy Issues in Financial Services — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 4: Don't Be Evil: In the Hot Seat of Data Privacy, Part 1
The American Privacy Right Act (APRA) explained
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Legal Alert | Wiretap Laws in the United States
Business Better Podcast Episode: Cyber Adviser – A Comparison of AI Regulatory Frameworks
Preventative Medicine: Health Care AI Privacy and Cybersecurity – Part 1 — The Good Bot Podcast
Cost of Noncompliance: More Than Just Fines
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The Team Continues to Grow: A Conversation With Our Newest Colleague, Kaitlin Clemens — Unauthorized Access Podcast
[Webinar] Midyear Data Privacy Check-in: Trends & Key Updates
Decoding Privacy Laws: Insights for Small to Mid-Sized Businesses — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
No Password Required: Education Lead at Semgrep and Former Czar for Canada’s Election Security
On October 31, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a $500,000 settlement with Plastic Surgery Associates of South Dakota (“PSA”) concerning potential...more
On February 14, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued its annual reports to Congress detailing its actions to enforce the privacy, security, and breach notification...more
Last month, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) hosted its annual PrivacyCon event, featuring an array of experts discussing the latest in privacy and data security research. This post, covering healthcare privacy issues, is...more
On February 6, 2024, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a settlement with Montefiore Medical Center (“MMC”) for alleged HIPAA Security Rule violations and MMC agreed to pay $4.75 million and enter into a...more
Ideal for professionals with some compliance knowledge and experience, HCCA’s Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy offers practitioners a deeper understanding of effective compliance management in a healthcare setting. The...more
The year 2023 was a busy one for regulatory, compliance, and enforcement developments in the healthcare and life sciences industries, and 2024 promises to be even busier. We tapped MoFo’s Life Sciences + Healthcare Compliance...more
2023 marked 20 years since the first compliance deadline under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (“HIPAA”) privacy rule. Despite the two decades of experience with HIPAA, compliance continues to remain...more
State regulators across the country continue to increase their focus on cyber security and data privacy compliance and enforcement. For years, cloud company Blackbaud, a service provider to thousands of nonprofit enterprises,...more
Is your organization a business associate? You could be subject to enforcement action if you fail to protect health information within your control from ransomware attacks. In October, for the first time, the U.S....more
Get ready to be inspired with game-changing insights and industry connections! For over two and a half decades, healthcare compliance professionals have gathered at HCCA’s Compliance Institute (CI) to share ideas, learn...more
October has been a busy month for the OCR, which is tasked with enforcing the regulations issued under HIPAA. In the past week, the OCR released two new guidance documents aimed at reducing the privacy and security risks...more
Designed for professionals with some compliance knowledge and experience, HCCA’s Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy is ideal for practitioners who want a deeper understanding of effective compliance management in a...more
The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights are cautioning hospitals and telehealth providers about the privacy and security risks related to the use of online...more
The FTC recently proposed amendments to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR). This is on trend with its aggressive interest over the last couple of years in health data not covered by HIPAA....more
On May 17, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) reached a settlement with Easy Healthcare Corporation (“Easy Healthcare”), for its fertility-tracking app, Premom. The agency alleged that Easy Healthcare failed to...more
Learning Objectives - Discover the 10 recommended cybersecurity practices from HICP - Understand how the existing resources in place - Ensuring proper compliance between 405(d) and HIPAA regulations...more
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on March 27, 2023 that she had levied a fine against law firm Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach LLP for failing to secure personal and health information of clients exposing the...more
For the first time since it became law on Aug. 25, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has taken enforcement action under 16 C.F.R. § 318, also known as the Health Breach Notification Rule, with a $1.5 million civil...more
On February 1, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had taken enforcement action against prescription drug discount company GoodRx, which agreed to injunctive relief and to pay a $1.5 million civil...more
The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") has brought its first enforcement action for violations of the Health Breach Notification Rule ("HBNR"), signaling heightened federal agency scrutiny of digital health platforms,...more
Most people, and especially health care providers, are familiar with HIPAA and its relation to protecting the privacy and security of a person's health care information. Now that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken...more
General and specialty compliance training from the comfort of your home or office! HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences provide practitioners with virtual compliance training that includes updates on the...more
Spring and summer have been busy seasons in the data privacy and security space. Here are some recent health updates to keep you up to speed...more
Alvaro Bedoya was sworn in as a commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on May 16, 2022. Bedoya is well known in privacy circles. He founded the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law School, where...more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 5 (May, 2022) - Compared to other agencies, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a little fish in the big federal pond, but it has an outsize effect on HIPAA covered entities (CEs) and...more