As the federal government continues to take action in response to events impacting the healthcare landscape, stakeholders must ensure that they are staying up-to-date with health information privacy and security developments...more
4/29/2024
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On October 11, 2023 the Minnesota Supreme Court issued an opinion in Schneider v. Children’s Health Care holding that the Minnesota Health Records Act (“MHRA”) provision allowing health care providers to release health...more
Companies may face class action lawsuits as early as July 2023 based on Washington’s new privacy law. Governor Jay Inslee recently signed House Bill 1155, the WA My Health, My Data Act (“MHMDA” or “the Act”), giving companies...more
5/24/2023
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The use of tracking technologies on websites and mobile applications (e.g., cookies) has become largely ubiquitous in our technology-driven world. Health care providers and organizations, for example, may use tracking...more
3/15/2023
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OCR ,
PHI ,
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Tracking Systems
On February 1, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging that digital health platform GoodRx violated the FTC Act by repeatedly...more
2/16/2023
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Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
The recently-enacted Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”) is generally known for providing relief funds and other resources to help individuals, small businesses, state and local governments,...more