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When it comes to safeguarding health data, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is paramount. HIPAA’s extensive reach encompasses nearly all healthcare providers and all health plans, affecting just...more
In the second episode of a "Florida Capital Conversations" mini-series on healthcare privacy, Tallahassee healthcare attorneys Shannon Hartsfield and Eddie Williams focus on Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...more
Important changes are coming to 42 CFR Part 2 (Part 2), which deals with the confidentiality of patients’ substance use disorder (SUD) records. On April 16, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published...more
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
It has been reported that dentists and other health care professionals have been visited/contacted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents seeking to carry out “immigration policies” and to remove those unlawfully...more
On February 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the recission of “HHS Notice and Guidance on Gender Affirming Care, Civil Rights, and Patient Privacy” (the...more
On January 20, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rescinded 2021 guidelines that previously designated hospitals, clinics, and other health care facilities as “protected areas” and limited immigration enforcement...more
The New York State legislature passed the Health Information Privacy Act (“NYHIPA”) on January 22, 2025, marking the second state to introduce a comprehensive consumer health data law. If passed, the NYHIPA imposes more...more
Law enforcement officers often request or demand that Idaho hospitals draw blood or conduct other tests on patients for law enforcement purposes; nevertheless, the general rule remains that patients (including persons in...more
Arecent report put the odds of an asteroid hitting the earth in December 2032 at 3.1%—which is 3,100 times more likely than an organization resolving an enforcement action with the U.S. Department of Health and Human...more
Can you remember healthcare security 20+ years ago? It seems like a different world from now. Believe it or not, the HIPAA Security Rule has barely changed since it was first enacted in 2003 and has been long overdue for a...more
The New York legislature passed its version of Washington’s My Health My Data Act (“WA MHMDA”) on January 22, 2025. Currently awaiting action by Governor Kathy Hochul, the New York Health Information Privacy Act (“NY HIPA”)...more
On February 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) took action pursuant to President Trump’s Executive Order 14187 (“EO 14187”), which is aimed at ending gender affirming care for minors. EO 14187...more
New York State appears poised to become the fourth state to explicitly regulate consumer health data not covered by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)....more
Last week, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) released warnings about an embedded function they found in the firmware of the Contec CMS8000,...more
Just in time for setting a new year’s resolution, the New York Senate passed health privacy bill S-929. This bill was first introduced during the 2024 legislative session but failed to pass. Now in the early weeks of 2025,...more
The HIPAA Security Rule was originally promulgated over 20 years ago. While it historically provided an important regulatory floor for securing electronic protected health information, the Security Rule’s lack of...more
“Almost every stage of modern healthcare relies on stable and secure computer and network technologies.” The above is a direct quote from the Office of Civil Rights for Health & Human Services (“OCR”) in its proposed...more
Executive orders and changes to enforcement directives permitting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and agents from other divisions of the Department of Homeland Security to enter sensitive locations, such as...more
New York lawmakers have passed a groundbreaking health privacy bill, the New York Health Information Privacy Act (NYHIPA or the Act), which could significantly redefine how entities handle health-related data. The Act, which...more
For over a decade, agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) were instructed pursuant to official policies to refrain from conducting law enforcement actions in or near various “sensitive locations”...more
On the newly installed Trump Administration's first day, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rescinded the Biden Administration's guidelines for immigration enforcement actions in or near protected areas, such as...more
On January 24, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order, titled "Enforcing the Hyde Amendment," revoking President Biden's two Executive Orders 14076 (July 8, 2022) and 14079 (August 3, 2022) that federally protected...more
It is by now common knowledge that on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2025, President Trump signed numerous executive orders geared toward the implementation of his immigration policy objectives, setting the stage for what he...more
On Jan. 21, the New York Senate approved a groundbreaking health privacy bill, S-929. The legislation, modeled on Washington state’s My Health My Data Act, aims to extend protections over personal health information beyond...more