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HIPAA Regulations & Business Associate Agreements In The Age Of Digital Collaboration

Pagefreezer on 4/1/2025

The healthcare industry has come up against unprecedented pressure in recent years. Digital transformation has had a significant role to play when it comes to creating the efficiency needed to deal with the challenges of a...more

Action Required for HIPAA Covered Entities Regarding Reproductive Health Care Compliance

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP on 10/31/2024

On April 22, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Final Rule titled HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (Final Rule)....more

Shortly After its Online Tracking Technologies Bulletin is Declared Unlawful, HHS-OCR Stands Down, Withdraws Appeal

Proskauer - Health Care Law Brief on 9/30/2024

On August 29, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS-OCR”) withdrew its appeal of an order by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas’...more

Don’t Get Caught in the “Low-Hanging Fruit” HIPAA Harvest

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 2/24/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Director of HIPAA enforcement agency cautions that many covered entities are not meeting the basic HIPAA requirements and sees “low-hanging fruit” for enforcement activity....more

Yearly Data Breach Reporting Due to OCR by February 29

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 2/21/2020

Every year, we remind our readers that the HIPAA data breach notification regulations require covered entities to notify the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of any reportable data breaches that involved fewer than 500...more

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