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“Briefings on HIPAA: Cybersecurity in Healthcare,” HCPro

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Principal Liz Heddleston was recently interviewed by HCPro for a story published on April 8, 2024, discussing the rising threat of ransomware attacks for healthcare providers. The story highlights lessons learned from a...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Washington’s My Health My Data Act and its Nevada Twin are Now in Effect – Are You Ready?

Washington's My Health My Data Act (Act), which imposes substantial new obligations on the collection and use of broadly defined "consumer health data" (CHD), went into effect March 31, 2024. Everyone that conducts business...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Closing the Privacy Gap: Understanding the Nuances and Heightened Risk of Washington’s My Health My Data Act

Washington’s My Health My Data Act (MHMDA) was enacted in an effort to close a perceived gap in privacy protection for consumer health data. MHMDA’s focus on consumer health data and right of private action deviate from...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Diving into the Washington My Health My Data Act - Part Three: Broad Scope of Consumer Health Data

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This is Part Three in a series of legal updates on the Washington My Health My Data Act (“WMHMDA”) where Quarles continues its deep dive into the various factors and intricacies of WMHMDA that are creating tidal waves in the...more

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New My Health My Data Act Part 3: The Wide Reach of the New Washington Privacy Legislation

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This Update is the third installment of the ongoing series covering Washington state’s new My Health My Data Act (the Act). Part 1 provided a high-level outline of the entities regulated under the Act and the corresponding...more

Vicente LLP

Buying a Ketamine Clinic: Why, How, and Risks to Understand

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This article is part of a continuing series of articles regarding transactional legal issues in the emerging psychedelic space. With ketamine being the only approved psychedelic drug for medical use, ketamine clinics offer a...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Data Brokers and Mental Health Information – Lack of Protections and Regulations

As consumer data collection continues to rise in the United States and around the world, aggregated health data is becoming a more common product bought and sold by data brokers. While worrying on its own, even more...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 2, February 2023

Illinois Supreme Court Allows Massive Damages in Biometric Privacy Cases - “The case involves Ohio-based fast-food company White Castle.” Why this is important: Illinois has the strictest biometric privacy law in the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Data Brokers May be Selling Mental Health Data with Minimal Vetting

A recent study found that some data brokers are selling highly sensitive data relating to consumers’ mental health conditions on the open market with minimal vetting of their customers and few controls on how these purchasers...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Proposed Changes to Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records Rules Would Support Better Care, Decrease Stigma,...

Amid the ongoing proliferation of headlines about the mental health crisis in the United States, of which substance use disorder is a large part, the recent issuance by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Health Care Policy Newsletter

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Foley & Lardner LLP’s (“Foley”) Bipartisan Public Policy Team is pleased to share our second “Public Policy Weekly* Health Care Newsletter” in which we compile the latest health care policy news and legislation. Please...more

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21st Century Cures Act Includes Several Noteworthy Mental Health and Substance Use Provisions

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The 21st Century Cures Act (Act), enacted in December 2016, has received widespread coverage for funding biomedical research and streamlining the drug approval process. The Act also includes the Helping Families in Mental...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

New Hampshire Psychiatric Hospital Patient Records Posted Online by Former Patient

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services has notified up to 15,000 patients of its psychiatric hospital (New Hampshire Hospital) that their names, addresses, Social Security numbers, Medicaid ID numbers and...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

21st Century Cures Act Includes Prohibition on Information Blocking and Mandates for Additional HIPAA Guidance

On November 30, 2016, the U.S. House of Representatives voted strongly in favor of the 21st Century Cures Act (the Act), an expansive health bill that addresses the discovery and development of new medical therapies as well...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

UCLA Health System announces data breach affecting 4.5 million patients and medical providers

Adding to the long list of cyber hacking victims, the UCLA Health System announced on Friday (July 17, 2015) that it confirmed on May 5, 2015 that a cyber-attacker had accessed parts of UCLA Health’s network back to September...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Two House Bills seek to address sharing of mental health information under HIPAA

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The Health Subcommittee of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing last week to consider two bills addressing current limits on the sharing of mental health information under HIPAA. The first bill, the...more

Baker Donelson

OCR Clarifies Permitted Disclosures, Including Mental Health Care

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The disclosure of mental health records and other disclosure-related issues tends to be less than clear for providers in their efforts to comply with the federal privacy rules. Such issues relate to appropriate disclosures to...more

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HHS Releases Guidance On Disclosure Of Mental Health Information Under HIPAA

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The HHS Office for Civil Rights issued guidance in question-and-answer format clarifying when a provider may release information regarding a patient’s mental health to family members, friends, law enforcement, and others. The...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

HIPAA and Mental Health Information: HHS Issues HIPAA Guidance Addressing Mental Health Information

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently issued new guidance clarifying how the HIPAA Privacy Rule strikes the balance of protecting individuals’ privacy of mental health information and communicating...more

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