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Proposed regulations may require employers to invest additional resources to safeguard group health plan participants’ protected health information. In this installment of our blog series on the U.S. Department of Health...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that strengthens the Security Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which, if...more
On Dec. 27, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued proposed updates to the HIPAA Security Rule to address evolving cybersecurity threats in healthcare. Introduced through a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) delivered a late-December surprise: a draft overhaul of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996’s (HIPAA) Security Rule....more
‘Tis the season for holiday baking and the elves at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), have been diligently crafting their own holiday treat. On December 27,...more
On October 23-24, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory hosted the Safeguarding...more
Regulatory action and class action lawsuits related to pixels and other website technologies continued to surge in 2023 and 2024, particularly in the healthcare industry....more
On April 17, 2023, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to modify the Standards for Privacy for Individually Identifiable...more
On May 18, 2023 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a Notice for Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) for updates to the Health Breach Notification Rule, 16 C.F.R. Part 318 (the Rule). The Rule serves to ensure entities that...more
On April 12, 2023, the Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced proposed changes to HIPAA’s Privacy Rule with regard to reproductive health information. The proposed changes are set out in a...more
It has been a while since we last gathered for one of the monthly public meetings of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission). Clearly, the monthly nature of the meetings is questionable, but then again, there are...more
SUMMARY - The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS) is proposing changes to the Privacy Rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HHS's proposed changes...more
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would prohibit the use or disclosure of protected health information (PHI) to...more
On April 13, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the HIPAA Privacy Rule, 45 C.F.R. Part 160 and Part 164, Subparts A...more
On April 12, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Notice” or “NPRM”) to solicit comments on proposed modifications to the HIPAA...more
On April 12, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Proposed Rule) that seeks to enhance safeguards of reproductive health care information through changes to the...more
On December 10, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the Standards for the Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health...more
On December 10, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)...more
On December 10, OCR issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) outlining its plan for major changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which governs the way that most individual protected health information (PHI) can be used in...more
In case privacy lawyers did not have enough to keep up with over the holiday season (as we’ve mentioned, there’s already plenty to keep up with in Europe and California), HHS’s Office for Civil Rights recently issued a Notice...more
On December 10, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced proposed revisions to the HIPAA Privacy Rule. HHS stated that the revisions would “address standards that may impede the transition to...more
Privacy revisions under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) may be on the horizon, with some potential changes that could benefit both patients and the healthcare industry. Other changes, if...more
Every year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) jointly sponsor a conference to “address the dynamic and challenging...more