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Privacy Briefs: July 2024

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

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Northern District of Texas Flashes the ‘Blue Lights’ on OCR’s Pixel Guidance

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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

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BakerHostetler Files Amicus Brief on Behalf of 30 Hospitals and Health Systems

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As noted back in December 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued dramatic guidance (often called the Bulletin) that targets the use of so-called Internet “tracking...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

HIPAA on the Horizon in the New Year: Important Lessons from an Active 2023 and Regulatory Initiatives to Watch for in 2024

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2023 marked 20 years since the first compliance deadline under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (“HIPAA”) privacy rule. Despite the two decades of experience with HIPAA, compliance continues to remain...more

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DHHS OCR and FTC Issue Warning to Hospital Systems and Telehealth Providers Regarding Privacy and Security Risks

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On July 20, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) through the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a joint letter to hospitals and telehealth providers alerting them to...more

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Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Issue Warnings Related to Use of "Online Tracking...

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently published a warning letter that they jointly sent to more than 130 hospital systems and...more

Dechert LLP

Dechert Cyber Bits - Issues 38

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SEC Finalizes Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules for Public Companies - On July 26, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) voted to adopt new rules requiring public companies to make certain disclosures...more

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FTC and HHS Warn Hospital Systems and Telehealth Providers About Use of Technologies That Share Sensitive Health Information

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The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights are cautioning hospitals and telehealth providers about the privacy and security risks related to the use of online...more

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FTC and HHS-OCR Spotlight Use of Tracking Tech by Healthcare Providers

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On Thursday, July 20, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission and HHS Office for Civil Rights issued a rare joint press release announcing that approximately 130 hospital systems and telehealth providers received a letter alerting...more

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DSIR Deeper Dive: A New Wave of Privacy Class Actions Targets Hospital Website Analytics Tools

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As with many websites, hospitals often deploy third-party analytics tools to measure browser traffic in order to increase awareness of their websites, ensure website optimization and provide health care information to the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Federal Wiretap Act: Illinois Court Rejects Claim Over Hospital Deploying Website Analytics Tools

Wiretapping claims have become the focus of the privacy plaintiff’s bar. These cases are everywhere, and the hospital industry in particular has been in the crosshairs of recent filings (with as many as a couple of dozen new...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

A Wake Up Call for Hospital Boards

The Georgia Legislature recently passed House Bill 321 (the Act) adding a new code section (O.C.G.A. §31-7-22), which imposes significant financial and business transparency requirements on certain hospitals in Georgia,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Years in the Making: The Health Resources & Services Administration Launches a Website to Increase Pricing Transparency in the...

If you overheard Medicaid providers breathe audible sighs of relief on April Fool’s Day, it may be because on April 1, 2019, the Health Resources & Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Connecticut Legislative Update: Public Act 16-77: An act concerning patient notices, designation of a health information...

This legislation (P.A. 16-77) makes substantive and technical changes related to Public Act 15-146, a major public health and health care bill passed by the Connecticut Legislature during its 2015 Legislative Session....more

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Health Care Employees at the Frontline in The Battle Against Ransomware

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As recent noteworthy attacks have shown, no health care organization or provider is safe from ransomware threats, and the results of an attack can be devastating. Ransomware is a virus which limits or eliminates access to...more

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Connecticut legislation establishes statewide Health Information Exchange

Effective October 1, 2015, this legislation contains several provisions to encourage the free exchange of patient health information among providers and consumers. Hospitals, health systems, and electronic health record (EHR)...more

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