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Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Healthcare Trends & Transactions Q2 2024

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Deal volume across the healthcare industry generally appears to have steadied despite headwinds. The general sentiment is that buyers have adapted to the current interest rates and are gritting their teeth and pressing...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

FTC Publishes Final Rule amending Health Breach Notification Rule

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The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently published its Final Rule amending the Health Breach Notification Rule (“HBNR”). The updated HBNR, which regulates entities that handle certain personal health information, other...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Keeping with the Times - FTC Expands Scope of Health Breach Notification Rule, Even as HHS Announces Its Own HIPAA Update

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On April 26, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced it had finalized changes to modernize the Health Breach Notification Rule (the “HBNR”) by clarifying its applicability to health and wellness apps and other...more

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FTC's Updated Health Data Breach Rule Covers Apps, Other New Tech

The FTC has updated its HBNR to clarify that the rule also restricts marketing practices involving personal health information. This update to the HBNR was announced on April 26, 2024, and follows several recent enforcement...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

FTC Proposes to Vastly Expand the Health Breach Notification Rule

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently proposed changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule (Rule), enacted in 2009, to clarify that the Rule applies directly to an estimated 170,000 health and wellness mobile...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

FTC Warns Digital Health Industry to Comply with its Breach Notification Rule

The use of apps, wearables, and other devices used to track health and wellness data have continued to rise. The FTC again signaled its focus on this growing industry in a statement on the scope of the Health Breach...more

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Agencies Encourage New Privacy Regulations to Close the mHealth Black Hole and Keep Pace with Evolving Technologies

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On July 19, 2016, the ONC submitted a report to Congress which suggests that health privacy regulations soon may be revised to catch up with the universe of mHealth technologies that now use and share personal health data....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Get Your Questions Ready

A lot has changed since the HIPAA Privacy Rule was finalized in 2002 and the HIPAA Security Rule was finalized a year later in 2003. The iPhone had not been released (that happened in 2007), Apple had just released the...more

Cooley LLP

Alert: Key Regulatory Considerations for Digital Health Companies

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Digital health is a growing field that promises improved patient education, wellness, engagement, access to care, and outcomes, among other things. However, with these new technologies come unique regulatory concerns that...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

Stickiness Eludes Many Health and Fitness Apps

The New York Times recently ran a story titled, “It’s hard to stay friends with an exercise monitor” that underscored a problem facing many health and fitness apps – the risk that users quickly lose interest. ...more

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