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Online Tracking Technologies: Updated HIPPA Guidance Creates Uncertainty

On March 18, the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’s) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) updated its guidance regarding the use of online tracking technologies. The American Hospital Association and others filed a...more

Key Contract Considerations and Trends: Buying, Selling, and Integrating With Digital Health Solutions

These are exciting times for the advancement of healthcare, whether you’re a hospital, health system, or healthcare technology company or a consumer that benefits from the proliferation of products and services provided. In...more

The Trends—and Traps—that Will Shape 2024

At a time marked by themes of “push” and “pull,” organizations across all sectors and jurisdictions are grappling with the pursuit of innovation within an increasingly complex regulatory framework. Over the next 12 months,...more

What Healthcare Industry Players Need to Know About the Evolving Landscape of State Consumer Privacy Laws

With the flurry of new consumer privacy laws enacted in states across the country, it is vital for healthcare companies that are not regulated under HIPAA to remain informed of this changing landscape in order to plan and...more

OCR Announces Settlement Agreement in PHI Breach

The US Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced a settlement agreement on June 15, 2023 with not-for-profit community hospital Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital (Yakima) related to...more

Navigating The Global Data Privacy Landscape: What Multinational Corporations Should Consider When Doing Business

The ever-evolving data privacy landscape continues to become more complex as new developments play out on the global stage. In the United States, a number of individual state laws have come into force, with more following in...more

What Businesses Should Know About State Consumer Privacy Laws

With the lack of comprehensive federal consumer privacy legislation, states are charting an evolving course for businesses to follow when handling data and information about their customers. Led by California, several other...more

How the End of the PHE Will Impact the Healthcare Industry

The Biden administration announced on January 30, 2023 that the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) would officially end on May 11, 2023. The PHE declaration, which first was issued by the Secretary of the US Department of...more

Back to Business: Adapting to the Expiration of 4 HIPAA Enforcement Discretion Waivers

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and related public health emergency (PHE), the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued four Notifications of Enforcement Discretion (referred to as...more

OCR Issues Online Tracking Technology Guidance for HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates

The US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published guidance on the use of online tracking technologies by entities operating as covered entities and business associates under the Health...more

The Trends—and Traps—that Will Shape 2023

The last few years have thrown many surprises at businesses. Organizations across all sectors have faced inflation, global conflicts, supply chain challenges, a pandemic, and continually changing government policies. In 2023,...more

California Consumer Privacy Act: Employee and B2B Exemptions Expire January 1, 2023

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) exemptions for employee and business-to-business (B2B) personal information have not been extended, further complicating the privacy regulatory landscape for businesses in...more

Data Privacy: Evolving Updates to the Global Landscape

World events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have accelerated the need for business operations to grow more digitally reliant and driven. As the global network grows and becomes more interconnected, privacy and...more

California Privacy Protection Agency Kicks Off CPRA Rulemaking Process

Businesses operating in California should follow the development of the California Consumer Privacy Rights Act regulations because, unless they are significantly modified, they are likely to once more place California on the...more

How Japan’s Privacy Act Amendments Affect Global Healthcare Businesses

For global healthcare companies that process personal information in Japan and/or import personal information from Japan, there are new requirements that must be considered in preparing data transfer or processing agreements,...more

Singapore Personal Data Protection Act Changes Have Implications for Healthcare Sector

Key amendments to the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act take into account technological advances, new business models, and global developments in data protection legislation, and will have an effect on healthcare...more

Metaverse Health: A Chance to Respawn Data Interoperability, Privacy, and Security

As we all try to keep up with the Metaverse and as the healthcare system wilts under a data deluge, the convergence of realities in a shared online space is not merely a chance for practitioners and patients to find each...more

Utah Passes More Business-Friendly Consumer Data Privacy Law

Utah has become the fourth state in the United States to pass a comprehensive consumer data privacy law—the most business-friendly state privacy law yet....more

New Legislation Aims to Upgrade HIPAA to Account for New Healthcare Technologies

On February 9, 2022, US Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced bipartisan legislation designed to modernize health privacy laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability...more

Digital Health Trends to Watch in 2022

In the digital health market, new trends reveal future opportunities for innovators and shape healthcare investors’ strategies. Trends for 2022 include regulatory developments regarding digital health, telehealth expansion,...more

FTC Policy Statement on Health Breach Notification Rule: A Conversation with Reece Hirsch

As we start 2022, as part of our Spotlight series, we connect with Reece Hirsch, the co-head of Morgan Lewis’s privacy and cybersecurity practice, to discuss the recent policy statement issued by the US Federal Trade...more

FTC Affirms Health Apps and Connected Devices Are Subject to Health Breach Notification Rule

According to recent guidance from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), providers of health apps and connected devices that collect consumers’ health information must comply with the FTC’s Health Breach Notification Rule, 16...more

Personal Information Protection Law: China’s GDPR Is Coming

China’s long-awaited Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), after two rounds of draft versions, was finally passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on August 20, 2021, with the law effective...more

UK Adequacy Decision for European Data Transfers

The European Commission has finally approved two decisions  on 28 June granting the United Kingdom the cherished status of having “adequate” data protection laws so that transfers of personal data from the European Union are...more

California Approves Even Tougher Privacy Laws

A majority of California voters approved the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA) on November 3. The CPRA expands provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), creates new consumer privacy rights,...more

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