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Hackers Increasingly Leveraging Threats to Patients to Pressure Health Organizations to Pay Ransom

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 4/22/2024

Cyberhackers—potentially frustrated by their limited ability to extort ransom from health care entities in attacks—have started extorting the patients themselves, threatening them with the release of information or...more

COVID-Era Flexibilities Granted in Wake of Change Healthcare Cybersecurity Attack

McDermott+ on 3/21/2024

Today marks one month since United Health Group’s (UHG) Change Healthcare reported that it had been hit by a cybersecurity attack. The attack has caused a major disruption to the US healthcare system, significantly impacting...more

Vital Signs: Digital Health Law Update | Winter 2024

Jones Day on 3/20/2024

Welcome to Vital Signs, a curated compilation of the latest legal and regulatory developments in digital health. Our lead article reports on HHS' recent final rule on the confidentiality of substance use disorder patient...more

HHS Cybersecurity Performance Goals and the Healthcare Industry

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 3/8/2024

The healthcare industry is a major target for cyberattacks because of all of the personal information collected from patients. Recognizing that the healthcare industry is such a ripe hunting ground for cybercriminals, the...more

Privacy Briefs: January 2024

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 1/17/2024

New York has released proposed cybersecurity regulations for hospitals. The regulations, which were published in The State Register on Dec. 6 and will undergo a 60-day public comment period ending on Feb. 5, are designed to...more

2024 Healthcare Private Equity Outlook & Trends

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 1/9/2024

W ith various headwinds resulting in down volume in 2023, buyers and sellers alike find themselves asking whether 2024 will see a rebound in deal activity. As we begin 2024, we have highlighted the issues and trends that...more

Behavioral health, artificial intelligence, and compliance

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 1/2/2024

Technology’s exponential development and use in healthcare provides potentially significant benefits for behavioral health patients but also raises ethical and compliance concerns. The most recent technological advance...more

Patent Poetry: European Union Approves First Wide-Scale AI Law

AEON Law on 12/13/2023

European lawmakers have reached an agreement on the world’s first comprehensive law on artificial intelligence (AI). According to the MIT Technology Review, The AI Act was conceived as a landmark bill that would mitigate...more

Privacy Briefs: December 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 12/8/2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 12 (December, 2023) Northwell Health in New York and Cook County Health in Chicago each experienced impacts from a breach at Nevada-based transcription company Perry Johnson & Associates...more

BA Depicted by OCR as Example of Ransomware Dangers Recovered Quickly, Didn’t Expect Fine

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

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 11 (November, 2023) Tim DiBona clearly remembers Christmas Eve 2018 when the staff of his small firm—Doctors’ Management Service (DMS)—arrived at their West Bridgewater, Mass., office to...more

White House Passes Sweeping AI Executive Order

Paul Hastings LLP on 11/1/2023

On October 30, 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration unveiled a sweeping Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Executive Order represents the most...more

Privacy Briefs: October 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 10/6/2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 10 (October, 2023) Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals will pay California $49 million to resolve allegations that they unlawfully disposed of hazardous waste,...more

Artificial intelligence: Compliance considerations for provider organizations

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 9/11/2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is nothing new to the healthcare industry, as many organizations and clinicians have utilized such tools in some capacity for many years. Imaging-related AI to support radiologists is not...more

Insights From The IBM 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 9/5/2023

The annual Cost of a Data Breach Report (Report) published by IBM is reliably full of helpful cybersecurity data. This year is no different. After reviewing the Report, we pulled out some interesting data points. Of course,...more

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 2, February 2023

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 3/2/2023

Illinois Supreme Court Allows Massive Damages in Biometric Privacy Cases - “The case involves Ohio-based fast-food company White Castle.” Why this is important: Illinois has the strictest biometric privacy law in the...more

Transatlantic Legal-Regulatory Update: Live from the Heart of Silicon Valley

Gardner Law on 12/2/2022

US and EU Life Sciences Law firms Fieldfisher & Gardner Law recently held a CLE event in Silicon Valley covering Healthcare Compliance, Data Privacy and Regulatory hot topics for MedTech and Pharma companies. Discussion...more

FDA’s New Draft Guidance on Cybersecurity

Gardner Law on 8/17/2022

The FDA has been continuing to work on protecting medical devices from the threats of cybersecurity. In April of this year, the Agency released the latest draft guidance addressing cybersecurity in the medical device...more

Key Considerations for Health App Developers from the FTC

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 4/26/2022

If your company creates health-related apps, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has set out some key considerations: - Make accurate representations. Clearly explain how people’s information will be used and shared and then...more

Compliance with July 1 CMS Interoperability Rule Deadline May Pose Ransomware Risk

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 6/25/2021

In recent months, the word “ransomware” has moved from a topic discussed only among cybersecurity professionals to a term used at dinner tables and water coolers across the country. Simultaneously, in the healthcare space,...more

Cybersecurity Risks in Medical Devices Discussed at Recent FDA Meeting

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 9/24/2019

The Patient Engagement Advisory Committee to the Food and Drug Association (FDA) met recently to discuss cybersecurity in medical devices. Medical devices are increasingly connected to the internet, hospital networks, and...more

Potentially Expanded Private Right of Action Increases Risk of Class Action Exposure Under the California Consumer Privacy Act

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 5/2/2019

Looking Back - the California Consumer Privacy Act, and How We Got Here - As companies were getting up-to-speed on the effects of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) last year, California quickly...more

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