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Lathrop GPM

Is AI Putting Your Organization at Risk?

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AI tools often drive efficiency and save money, but they have drawbacks. Here’s what to know....more

BCLP

Federal Court Rejects Motion to Dismiss Wiretap Claims Using HIPAA to Support Crime-Tort Exception Allegations

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It has now become commonplace for Plaintiffs’ attorneys to bring claims alleging that routine marketing techniques, including the deployment of behavioral advertising cookies and pixels, constitute wiretaps in violation of...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

CMS Restricts Marketing Companies From Sharing Medicare Beneficiary Data

Half of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. This extensive growth, which represents a doubling of MA enrollment since 2010, has been driven in part by an extensive network of insurance agents...more

Clark Hill PLC

Right To Know - October 2023, Vol. 10

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Cyber, Privacy, and Technology Report - Welcome to your monthly rundown of all things cyber, privacy, and technology, where we highlight all the happenings you may have missed....more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

The Next Post They Write Might Be About You: The FTC’s Business Blog Calls Out Health Data Practices That Can Violate Section 5

In another example of the agency’s practice of regulation by blog, the FTC published last week a Business Blog Post about protecting consumer health information. The post, which summarizes key points from several recent...more

Goodwin

A Look Ahead in Life Sciences: What We Are Tracking in Q3 2023 and Beyond

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As the life sciences industry continues to expand and grow increasingly complex, so does its legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. To help companies and investors navigate the many evolving and emerging laws and...more

Woods Rogers

Reviewing Online Tracking Technologies Could Keep HIPAA-Regulated Entities Out of Hot Water

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A patient surfs a hospital system’s website and reads an article about depression and anxiety. The patient then searches the hospital’s website for mental health providers in the area. A few hours later, the patient logs into...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Lessons Learned from FTC Enforcement Action Against BetterHelp

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is on a roll in its efforts to signal to the digital health industry that data privacy must be a priority. The FTC announced a consent decree with BetterHelp on March 2, 2023, to settle...more

Roetzel & Andress

Effectively Marketing Your Medical and Dental Practice While Staying Legally Compliant

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Hosts Ericka Adler and David Hochman, Roetzel Health Law Attorneys, are joined by J.J. Abbott, owner and creative director at Premiere Creative, for a discussion on the importance of website and web marketing for physicians...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Providers May Contact Recovered COVID-19 Patients About Blood and Plasma Donation, According to OCR Guidance

Late last week, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued guidance aimed at “making sure misconceptions about HIPAA do not get in the way of a promising COVID-19 response,” according to...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Florida’s Proposed Privacy Legislation: An In-Depth Analysis for Corporate Counsel

The Florida Senate and House of Representatives are considering two bills (SB 1670 and HB 963) that, if adopted, will amend Florida law to create the state’s first comprehensive privacy law (though they do not go nearly as...more

Carlton Fields

Applying the CCPA to Health Care: The HIPAA Exemption, Exercise Apps, and Marketing Data

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Despite its breadth, California's new privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), creates an exemption designed around the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). That exemption is...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Warner Chilcott HIPAA Lesson Revisited – Mass. Physician Convicted of Criminal Violation

Back in late 2015, we blogged about the interesting twist in the $125 million Warner Chilcott settlement that a Massachusetts physician had been criminally charged with violating the Health Insurance Portability and...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Doctor pleads guilty to providing protected health information to drug maker

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A pediatric cardiologist from Georgia has pled guilty to wrongfully disclosing the protected health information of hundreds of his patients to an Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Inc. sales representative and executive looking to...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Health Update - June 2017

HIPAA and Emerging Technologies - Editor’s Note: According to a HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey of healthcare provider employees, about 90% say they are using mobile devices to engage patients in their healthcare—and 36%...more

Hogan Lovells

New York Regulators Lead the Charge to Fill Health Data Protection Gaps Left by Federal Law

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New York AG Settles Data Protection Enforcement Against Mobile Health Apps - After a year-long investigation into mobile health apps claiming to be able to measure vital signs or health indicators through smartphone...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Health Update - November 2016

Post-Election Analysis: Healthcare Antitrust in a Trump Administration - In a Republican sweep of all the elected branches of the federal government, Donald Trump won the presidential election and Republicans retained...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Health Update - November 2015

Best Practices for Using Social Media in Healthcare: Maximizing Impact, Mitigating Risk - Editor's note: In a generation more likely to seek health information online than see a doctor, social media is playing an...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

HIPAA Lessons from the Warner Chilcott Settlement

Last week, the US Attorney’s Office in Boston announced that drug company Warner Chilcott agreed to plead guilty to health care fraud and pay $125 million to resolve criminal and civil liability arising out of allegations...more

Carlton Fields

The FCC's TCPA Regulatory Ruling Imposes Tighter Call Restrictions

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Last month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a long awaited declaratory ruling and order, FCC 15-72, addressing several petitions which sought clarification of or exemptions from Telephone Consumer...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

Gray Reed

The Online Marketer’s Guide To Privacy

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I’ve hesitated to write this post because the law is always changing and you can’t cover it all in one blog post (thank goodness for linking). I did a presentation to the Houston Interactive Marketing Association this week...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

OCR Guidance to Address HIPAA Marketing Turmoil

In response to a recent lawsuit and outcry from a variety of players in the health care market, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) has committed to issuing guidance by September 23rd (the compliance date for...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

HIPAA Marketing Rules Prompt First Amendment Challenge

In what is believed to be the first legal challenge to the HIPAA Omnibus Rule (the “Rule”), a vendor of prescription drug adherence services is seeking an injunction to block certain provisions of the Rule related to drug...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

HIPAA Omnibus Rule Compliance: Is Your Practice Ready?

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On January 17, 2013, the United States Department of Health and Human Services released a Final Rule, commonly known as the “HIPAA Omnibus Rule,” which included significant changes to the HIPAA compliance requirements for...more

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