Healthcare Document Retention
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 192: Business Issues for Healthcare with Ira Bedenbaugh and Randi Branham of Elliott Davis
Business Better Podcast Episode: Cyber Adviser – Your Data, My Headache: Consumer Health Data Laws
Conducting Healthcare Compliance Investigations
The FTC's Health Privacy Enforcement Actions
Web-based Tracking Technology and AI: HIPAA Compliance Issues for Health Care Practices
Podcast: Discussing the Implications of Healthcare Privacy Violations
Podcast: Keeping an Eye on HIPAA Trends with Shannon Hartsfield
Podcast - Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and How to Comply with HIPAA & State Privacy Laws
Meeting Cancer Reporting Requirements
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 10
Business Associates Here, There, and Everywhere: When Does Your Service Provider Really Need to Sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement?
Patient Data and Privacy
Changing Telehealth Rules
De-Identification Under HIPAA and GDPR
Data Security Standards Audits
Compliance Programs and Doubt Mining
Employment Law Now VI-121 - Top 5 Fall Things You Need To Know
An Inside Look as a Juror - FCRA Focus Podcast
Expanded Information Block Rules Go into Effect
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has abandoned its appeal of a federal judge’s ruling overturning OCR’s guidance prohibiting covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs) from using the web-tracking technologies...more
Over the past several years, the number of states with comprehensive consumer data privacy laws has increased exponentially from just a handful—California, Colorado, Virginia, Connecticut, and Utah—to up to twenty by some...more
With organizations holding more and more data digitally, there is an increased need to ensure data remains accessible across the organization at any given time. To that end, many organizations use tools that synchronize the...more
The Department of Health and Human Services (the “HHS”) recently issued a final rule (the “Final Rule”) amending the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) Privacy Rule. Among other things, the Final...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a long-standing habit of creating legal obligations through blog posts. Recent communications from the FTC by way of its Office of Technology Blog evidence an aggressive expectation...more
In light of the changing legal landscape following Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Department of Health and Human Services (the “Department”) issued a final rule (link, and corresponding fact sheet link)...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 as initially adopted (or subsequently amended until 2020) did not contain the principle of data minimization. A requirement to minimize data collection was, however, added by the...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues to enforce and update its Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) amidst a fast-changing regulatory environment. A new rule, which took effect this week, expands the scope of the...more
Document retention is one of those persistent issues that comes with a great deal of complexity. As Michael Kearney, Head Solution Architect, Redgrave Data explains in this podcast, organizations have to deal with a dizzying...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has updated its Health Breach Notification Rule that applies to non-HIPAA, consumer health data. Among the revisions, the FTC expanded or introduced key definitions and modified the...more
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has deemed healthcare entities “target rich, cyber poor,” meaning they have copious amounts of consumer and patient data but often do not have the cybersecurity means to...more
Learning Objectives: - Understand the methods for de-identification - Learn about the differences between anonymization, de-identification, and pseudonymization - Understand what “potential for re-identification”...more
Effective July 29, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has issued a final rule that expands the scope of its existing Health Breach Notification Rule (“HBNR”) to include health and wellness applications (“apps”)...more
Welcome to Vital Signs, a curated compilation of the latest legal and regulatory developments in digital health. Our lead article reports on recent developments in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ("FDA") regulatory...more
Maryland’s governor recently signed the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act of 2024 (MODPA), making Maryland one of six states—along with Kentucky, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Rhode Island—to pass a comprehensive...more
Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee allowed the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (“RIDTPPA”) to pass on June 25, 2024 when he transmitted the bill back to the legislature without signature, making...more
Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System said it experienced a breach impacting more than 1.27 million patients when a former employee of vendor Nuance Communications Inc., a Microsoft Corp. subsidiary, accessed patient...more
In May 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a final rule amending HIPAA’s Privacy Rule to address reproductive health care privacy. The final rule was prompted by the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in Dobbs...more
On April 17, 2024, Nebraska’s governor signed Legislative Bill 1074, which establishes a consumer data privacy law for the state. Nebraska’s law takes effect January 1, 2025. To Whom does the law apply? The law applies to...more
On July 1, 2024, the amendments to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) went into effect. First promulgated in 2009, the HBNR applies to vendors of personal health records — entities that are not covered by the Health...more
On June 25, 2024, the governor of Rhode Island transmitted without signature a comprehensive privacy bill, the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (DTPPA), back to the state legislature, which is still...more
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) years-long effort to modernize its Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) in the midst of a swiftly changing technological landscape appears to be coming to an end. On Thursday, May 30,...more
On July 29, 2024, the FTC’s revised Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) takes effect. The Rule requires vendors of personal health records (PHRs) and related entities not covered by HIPAA to notify individuals, the FTC,...more
In May 2024, the New York State Department of Health (“NYSDOH”) issued revisions to proposed regulations on hospital cybersecurity that it first released in November 2023. The proposed revised regulations are subject to...more