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
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for April 2024. We discuss several US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency actions, including the Calendar Year (CY) 2025...more
European Data Protection Board Publishes Strategy for 2024-27 - The European Data Protection Board (“EDPB” - the EU body tasked with promoting consistency and cooperation in enforcement of the GDPR) has outlined its...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently published an executive summary (Report) outlining key enforcement activities of the Health Insurance Portability and...more
2024 is shaping up to be a very active year for regulatory and enforcement developments in the healthcare industry – developments that concern not just hospitals and nursing facilities, but many non-healthcare companies as...more
On March 18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Bulletin revising its December 1, 2022 Guidance concerning the HIPAA obligations of covered entities and...more
On March 18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS-OCR) revised its controversial December 2022 bulletin (the December 2022 Bulletin) regarding the use of tracking technologies by...more
On March 18, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued an update to its December 1, 2022, bulletin titled “Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued updated guidance on March 18, 2024 regarding the use of online tracking technologies by entities and business associates covered by the...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for February 2024. We discuss various regulatory developments, including guidance on the use of AI in coverage decisions and texting...more
The Miles & Stockbridge Health Care Practice Group hosted its inaugural Hot Topics in Health Care Law seminar last month for clients from Maryland and beyond. Miles & Stockbridge health care lawyers kicked off the seminar...more
The long-anticipated final rule addressing substance use disorder (SUD) records at 42 C.F.R. Part 2, commonly referred to as Part 2, is here. The final rule is a joint undertaking by the U.S. Department of Health and Human...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") issued a concept paper describing its overarching strategy to address healthcare cybersecurity. The concept paper builds on the Biden-Harris Administration's National...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced its final rule (the Enforcement Rule) implementing the information blocking penalties created by the 21st Century Cures Act...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently posted the final rule establishing civil monetary penalties (CMPs) for information blocking (IB Enforcement Rule). The Rule...more
On June 27th, Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted its final rule (Final Rule), which amends the OIG’s civil monetary penalty (CMP) regulations to implement the...more
On February 27, 2023 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced the formation of three new divisions within the office: Enforcement Division, Policy Division,...more
In April, 2020, in an effort to facilitate a national pivot to telehealth in light of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a policy...more
On February 17, 2023, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released two companion reports to Congress detailing its actions in 2021 to enforce the privacy, security, and breach...more
On February 27, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that its law enforcement agency – the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) – will reorganize, adding new divisions to better address the rapid...more
Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) When Micky Tripathi’s mom was recently transferred to a rehab facility to recover from a broken hip, the hospital, “right in front of me…printed off her record,...more
Regulatory enforcement and large litigation relating to the use of third party trackers on companies’ websites and applications have been on the rise. Tracking often occurs without the companies’ knowledge or consent. Third...more
On November 28, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) proposed sweeping changes to the rules that govern use and disclosure of protected health information (“PHI”) about patients receiving substance...more
A proposed HHS regulation on the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Patient Records under 42 C.F.R. Part 2 would bring it further in line with HIPAA, which is somewhat of a double-edged sword, attorneys say....more
A strong cybersecurity program can help defend against cyber attacks and protect sensitive patient data. Thanks to a 2021 amendment of the HITECH Act, when a breach occurs, it can also reduce enforcement penalties. The...more