Data Collection, Data-Sharing, Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI)

New Class Certification Decision in App-Tracking Case Provides Critical Guidance for Businesses Facing Privacy Claims

Fisher Phillips on 5/30/2025

A California federal court just certified a significant class action involving allegations that a health-tracking app improperly shared sensitive health information with third parties without user consent. The court’s May 22...more

Biometrics Litigation Update: Washington Is Poised to Become a New Frontier for Private Litigants

Paul Hastings LLP on 3/12/2024

In just a few short weeks, a new front may emerge for biometrics litigation in the United States. On March 31, 2024, the My Health My Data Act (“MHMDA”) will go into effect in Washington for most entities that conduct...more

Beyond HIPAA: What Businesses Need to Know as States Join Trend to Protect Consumer Health Data

Fisher Phillips on 8/14/2023

For decades, medical providers and other covered entities have satisfied their health-data privacy obligations by complying with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) — but this is changing...more

Nevada Legislature Passes Consumer Health Data Privacy Bill

WilmerHale on 6/15/2023

On June 5, the Nevada state legislature passed an amended version of Senate Bill 370 (“SB 370”), a bill imposing new requirements on the collection, use, and sale of consumer health data. The bill has been delivered to...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2021

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 3/1/2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 2 (February 2021) - The Florida Healthy Kids Corporation (FHKC), a Medicaid managed care plan, said one of its vendors, Jelly Bean Communications Design, experienced a security incident...more

Compliance Perspectives: The Ethics of Data

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 1/28/2021

Digitalization and the proliferation of apps have changed the relationship in healthcare between data, the patient and provider, explains Hema Lakkaraju, CEO and founder of Hayag Corporation. It is often unclear who is...more

As Covered Entities Inch Toward Normalcy, Thorny Worker, Patient Privacy Issues Arise

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 6/15/2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 6 (June 2020): Being a health care provider in the midst of a pandemic is complicated enough, between offering telehealth services, perhaps for the first time, and helping workers continue...more

Federal “COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act” Proposed

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 5/10/2020

A group of Republican senators has proposed a new privacy law to govern the collection and use of certain personal information thought to be both important and at risk during the current coronavirus crisis....more

Google Health's Partnerships Raise Privacy Concerns

Troutman Pepper Locke on 1/29/2020

Google Health’s Partnerships Raise Privacy Concerns - Recently, Google has been at the center of privacy concerns due to its health- sharing collaborations with the University of Chicago Medical Center (the Medical Center)...more

Strategies to Unlock AI’s Potential in Healthcare Part 6: Commercialization of AI Tools in Healthcare – the Challenge of Securing...

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 11/26/2018

As noted in previous posts in this series, AI tools hold great promise for applications in healthcare. To date, AI tools in healthcare primarily leverage machine learning technology – i.e., the machine’s ability to keep...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2018 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 6/26/2018

Just days after the summit between the U.S. and North Korea, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning about a malicious malware, a Trojan malware variant known as...more

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