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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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FTC Brings Second Enforcement Action Against Healthcare Company for Violating the Health Breach Notification Rule

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On May 17, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) reached a settlement with Easy Healthcare Corporation (“Easy Healthcare”), for its fertility-tracking app, Premom. The agency alleged that Easy Healthcare failed to...more

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Q1 - 2023: Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Quarterly Briefing

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Data privacy laws have been progressing globally, but federal legislation in the U.S. has been lacking - Businesses are facing a growing number of data privacy regulations. This is especially apparent among those in highly...more

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[Webinar] Get Ready To Go Back To School: What You Might Have Missed This Summer In Data Privacy - September 29th, 1:30 pm - 2:30...

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We are delighted to welcome you to our next webinar “Get Ready to Go Back to School: What You Might Have Missed this Summer in Data Privacy” which will cover the following topics: - The Digital Services Act, Digital...more

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The California Data Exchange Framework: New Requirements for Sharing Health Information Between Hospitals, Physicians, and Other...

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The recently unveiled California Health and Human Services Data Exchange Framework (the Framework) creates a new regulatory and governance structure to promote the exchange of health information between health care providers...more

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Podcast–Interoperability: How Far We’ve Come and Where We’re Going - Diagnosing Health Care

The 21st Century Cures Act kicked off a major paradigm shift in the approach to accessing and sharing patient data. How will the health care industry adapt to this new way of thinking? On this episode of Diagnosing Health...more

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3 Ways That Blockchain Can Help the Healthcare Industry Focus More on Patient Care and Less on Administrative Headaches

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The healthcare industry has unique data management needs as it deals with patient information that is sensitive, personal, and confidential. However, this data is often stored and spread across different facilities and...more

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[Virtual Event] 2021 Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - Seattle - July 23rd, 8:25 am - 4:30 pm PDT

Our Virtual Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences provide updates on the latest news in regulatory requirement, compliance enforcement, and strategies to develop effective compliance programs. Watch, listen, and ask...more

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Compliance Perspectives: The Ethics of Data

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

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

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

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Compliance Perspectives: Permissible Disclosures under HIPAA, Especially in the Time of COVID-19

With the COVID-19 pandemic demands for Personal Health Information (PHI) from law enforcement, the press, politicians and the public are increasing. While there may be good reasons behind many of these demands, healthcare...more

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Google Health's Partnerships Raise Privacy Concerns

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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

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Analyzing ONC’s Proposed Rule: Fee Restrictions for Health IT and EHI

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The ONC recently released a proposed rule under the 21st Century Cures Act to promote interoperability of health IT and advance access, exchange or use of electronic health information. If finalized, the proposed rule would...more

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ONC Proposes to Define Conduct That Is Not Information Blocking under the Cures Act

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The ONC finally released its long-awaited proposed rule to implement the “information blocking” prohibition of the 21st Century Cures Act by identifying conduct that is not information blocking. If finalized, ONC’s proposed...more

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

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

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