Privacy and Healthcare Business Associates with Isabella Porter
In June 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued new guidance on the use of remote communication technologies to deliver audio-only telemedicine in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability...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
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the evolution of the role of technology in medical care, giving rise to novel issues in the absence of formal governmental guidance. Responding to certain challenges brought on by the...more
As telehealth services surged in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, unique compliance challenges likewise developed in unexpected ways. Recognizing these challenges, the Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) indicated that it would...more
As COVID-19 antibodies begin flooding the immune systems of most Americans, it is important to remember the important role that hygiene has played over the past fifteen months. For many, the risks and dangers of the pandemic...more
2020 can rightfully be called the year for remote health care. Fueled by necessity and accompanying loosened regulations, telehealth and the demand for remote patient monitoring boomed. Signs that this progress is here to...more
Hold on to your alphabet . . . GSA extends the MAS CD&F waiver of TAA & BAA for COVID-19 PPE to 8/1/20. If that made sense to you, please proceed to the final paragraph. But for the acronymically challenged, when everything...more
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on April 2 that HHS is exercising its enforcement discretion to permit business associates to use and disclose protected health information (PHI) for public health...more
For the first 72 hours after a hospital institutes its disaster protocol for the COVID-19 emergency, HIPAA sanctions and penalties will be waived for: - Failure to obtain a patient’s agreement to speak with family/friends...more
Key Points - This Katten advisory synthesizes several recent major developments impacting the delivery of telehealth services by health care providers in light of the COVID-19 crisis. We cover - - Key steps taken by the...more