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Final Rule Aligns 42 CFR Part 2 with HIPAA and HITECH

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On February 8, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted a final rule that aims to align 42 CFR Part 2 (Part 2) — which protects certain substance abuse disorder (SUD) records — with the Health Insurance...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Is OCR Correct That Website Metadata Is Regulated by HIPAA? Chicago Federal Court Asks

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The plaintiff’s bar continues to bring new wiretapping claims over pixels and analytics programs in courts around the country, including against hospitals and other entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 11. MD Anderson Won Against OCR, But Agency’s Response—Including on Fines—Keeps...

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Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 11. (November 2022) Nearly five years passed from the time the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that three...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Learning from the Mistakes of Others: OCR Releases Audit Report

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The HHS Office for Civil Rights released, at the end of last year, findings from audits it conducted in 2016 and 2017 of 166 covered entities and 41 business associates. The report represents the periodic audit that the...more

Hogan Lovells

California Consumer Privacy Act: The Challenge Ahead — Introduction to Hogan Lovells’ Blog Series

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Groundbreaking. Watershed. Unprecedented. - We have heard the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) called all these things and more since its enactment on June 28, ?2018. Our experience to date has confirmed the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Seventh Circuit rules hospital system is not a Consumer Reporting Agency under FCRA

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Is a hospital a “consumer reporting agency”? Can a health care provider be liable under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) in the event of a data breach? The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently considered these...more

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