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
On September 4, Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), challenging two key Health Insurance Portability and...more
HCCA's Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy is a three-and-a-half-day interactive education program with a focus on the vast body of privacy laws and regulations in place to help you protect PHI and other critical data. Our...more
Ideal for practitioners who want to build strong foundational knowledge of compliance program management in a healthcare setting and how to apply that knowledge in practice. Attendees will come away better prepared to...more
Big Picture - Last week, Texas AG Ken Paxton (R) sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), alleging that the new HHS final rule amending HIPAA regulations to strengthen protections for reproductive health...more
On April 26, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published the final HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (Final Rule). The Final Rule became effective June 25, 2024....more
On April 22, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued new regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) that impose new restrictions on the use and...more
On August 29, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) withdrew its appeal of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas’s June 20, 2024, decision in American...more
On August 19, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) filed a notice of appeal of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas’s June 20, 2024, decision in American...more
The August Monthly Minute highlights new IRS guidance addressing student loan matching programs, HHS’s increases to civil monetary penalties and Form 5330 paper filing updates....more
Previously published in Healthcare News and Healthcare Michigan. On February 8, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized revisions to 42 CFR Part 2. Read on to learn more about Part 2, the changes,...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
On June 20, 2024, a U.S. federal district court held, in a suit brought by Jones Day, that the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") had misapplied the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA")...more
On April 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published Final Regulations under HIPAA’s Privacy Rule introducing greater protections for information related to...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a final rule that modifies the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (“the Privacy Rule”) under the Health Insurance...more
Every day, physicians, medical practice managers, and administrative professionals call their trusted attorneys with a "quick question" about the legality of a new approach to ensure patients come to their appointments on...more
On April 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service Office for Civil Rights issued a final privacy rule to support reproductive health privacy. The rule does not allow the sharing of reproductive health...more
Earlier this year, federal agencies teamed up to issue two rules that will require healthcare providers to update certain policies related to the use and disclosure of health information and to update their Notice of Privacy...more
The Department of Health and Human Services issued a final rule amending the HIPAA privacy rules (“2024 Privacy Rule”). The 2024 Privacy Rule limits the use or disclosure of an individual’s PHI in connection with reproductive...more
The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the US Department of Health and Human Services recently released a final rule (“Final Rule”) to update the HIPAA Privacy Rules for reproductive health care information. The Final Rule...more
On June 25, 2024, the Final Rule issued by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) that amended the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became effective as a means of further protecting...more
On June 20, 2024, a Texas federal judge ruled that guidance published by the Department of Health and Human Services (the Department) prohibiting covered entities from disclosing information collected by third-party...more
On June 20, 2024, the Northern District of Texas issued its final order in American Hospital Association, et al. v. Becerra, et al. (AHA), granting the plaintiffs’ (the American Hospital Association, two Texas health systems...more
A recent federal court decision is a victory for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) covered entities using third-party tracking tools on unauthenticated webpages. These are websites available to the...more