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News & Analysis as of May 20, 2013

Data Management for Health Care Organizations: Is Your Head in the Sand? The Data Is Not There

by Ober|Kaler on 12/7/2012

It is virtually inevitable that health care companies will be called upon to preserve, collect, review and produce some portion of their electronic records. Health care companies face unique and complex challenges as they...more

#Ediscovery & Biz Data Keeps you from Sleeping? Know Data Retention Policy's 4 Pillars. Primer.

by Wahab & Medenica LLC on 8/29/2012

Writing a Data Retention Policy may seem unimportant when there are so many other aspects of running a business that require your attention, but having one in place will save your company lot of time, money, and headache if...more

FOIA Requests for Electronic Records

by Miller Canfield on 7/17/2012

Freedom of Information Act coordinators have a difficult task nowadays given the exponential growth of electronic records. In order to ease the burden of responding to myriad requests for public records, FOIA coordinators...more

Memo on HHS's NPRM: HIPPA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures and Access Reports

by Cory S. Clements on 6/6/2011

On May 31, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (“Department”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) as authorized by the HITECH Act of 2009. Primarily, the proposed changes...more

Traveling the New Road to Data Privacy Regulation in the United States: An Examination of Recent U.S. Data Privacy Considerations...

by James Sherer on 6/1/2011

A spate of recent – and renewed – interest in data privacy by the U.S. Government should give those organizations that collect sensitive and personally-identifiable information from individual consumers reason to pause. And...more