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HHS Proposes Significant Updates to HIPAA Security Rule

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On January 6, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) to amend the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

How to Maintain Patient Privacy when Digitally Transferring Medical Information

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The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) recently published a document for public comments entitled, “Protecting Patients’ Privacy When Transferring Medical Information via Digital Devices and Undesignated Software.”...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 6. Privacy Briefs: June 2020

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Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 6 (June 2020): A divided Indiana Court of Appeals has reinstated a patient’s claim that a hospital is vicariously liable for the actions of a medical assistant who accessed the patient’s...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Increased Interoperability of Health Information: Two New Proposed Rules

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently proposed two new rules designed to increase patient and provider access to health records. As stated by HHS in its press release, the proposed rules “will...more

McDermott Will & Emery

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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