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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

FDA Strives to Adapt Regulatory Approach to Rapidly Evolving Digital Health Space

Just two months after taking office, in July 2017, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced the agency’s Digital Health Innovation Action Plan, which recognized that “digital technology has...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

HHS Task Force Says Healthcare Cybersecurity is in “Critical Condition”

Unbeknownst to many, Congress established the Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force in 2015 to address the health care industry’s cybersecurity challenges. That Task Force–a combination of public and private...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Two HIPAA Mistakes Lead to Fines from OCR

It was a busy April for the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) (see our prior post on a settlement from earlier in April). On April 20, OCR announced a Resolution Agreement with Center for Children’s Digestive Health, S.C....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

M.D. Phone Home: New Legislation Expands Telemedicine in Washington

On March 29, 2016, as Governor Inslee signed Senate Bill 6519, Washington became a friendlier state for telemedicine. The new law or “Telemedicine Advancement Law” has a long-winded official title: “Expanding patient access...more

Dickinson Wright

Healthcare Legal News Volume 5 Number 2

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According to a recent study by Accenture, by 2017 approximately 18 percent of the American public will purchase insurance through exchanges versus relying on traditional employer healthcare coverage or foregoing insurance...more

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