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Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Healthcare Trends & Transactions Q2 2024

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Deal volume across the healthcare industry generally appears to have steadied despite headwinds. The general sentiment is that buyers have adapted to the current interest rates and are gritting their teeth and pressing...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Holland & Knight Health Dose: February 27, 2024

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Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Understanding the requirements for waiving or altering HIPAA authorization for research

The HIPAA Privacy Rule sets forth provisions related to the waiver or alteration of authorization in relation to clinical research studies for circumstances in which it would be impractical or impossible to obtain...more

BakerHostetler

Healthcare Industry Team 2023 Year in Review

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As we approach the conclusion of another transformative year, we are excited to present our comprehensive year-end review, shedding light on the trends shaping the healthcare market in 2023. Our team’s keen insights and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Webinar] HIPAA and Access: The Intersection of OCR Enforcement Trends and Clinical Research - January 18th, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CT

Learning Objectives - Brief primer on what qualifies as “access” under HIPAA for both routine healthcare and clinical trial operations - Review of OCR enforcement and issues related to access via recent audits and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy - February 26th - 29th, Phoenix, AZ

Ideal for professionals with some compliance knowledge and experience, HCCA’s Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy offers practitioners a deeper understanding of effective compliance management in a healthcare setting. The...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Clinical Research and Patient Data Protection are at a Complicated Intersection

The privacy landscape in the United States and much of the world is quickly evolving around the framework of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) within the European Economic Alliance (EEA). Clinical trials involve...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

The European Health Data Space - Panacea or Poison Pill?

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On 3 May 2022, the European Commission launched its proposal for a Regulation for the European Health Data Space to “unleash the full potential of health data”. However, questions arise as to whether this proposal is a...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference - November 7th - 9th, 8:55 am - 3:30 pm CST

Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us virtually at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance...more

K&L Gates LLP

Health Care Triage: When Regulatory Review is Necessary: Clinical Research vs. Quality Initiatives

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In this week’s episode, Richard Church interviews Rebecca Schaefer about the intersection and blurred line between clinical research and quality initiatives. The presenters discuss what factors to consider when defining...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 9. Privacy Briefs: September 2020

- Utah Pathology Services, based in Salt Lake City, has reported a data breach involving approximately 112,000 patients. According to the medical practice’s “Notice of Data Incident,” the practice learned June 30 that “an...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

UK MRC Clarifies When Health Data Is Anonymised in Research Context

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Research participants must identify which data sets constitute personal data to ensure compliance with the GDPR. The UK Medical Research Council (MRC) has published a useful guidance note on the identifiability,...more

McDermott Will & Emery

HHS Releases Draft Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for 2020-2025

The Department of Health and Human Services released its draft 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment. This article outlines the goals of the plan, as well as challenges in healthcare that ONC hopes the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

California Bill Proposes CCPA Exceptions for HIPAA De-identified Information, Other Health Data

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On January 6, 2020, the California State Senate’s Health Committee unanimously approved California AB 713, a bill that would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to except from CCPA requirements additional...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

As MD Anderson Keeps Up Its Legal Fight, U. Rochester Pays OCR $3M

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 1 (January 2020) - Ah, those pesky residents. If you’re a teaching hospital, you can’t live without them, right? But sometimes living with them is mighty costly, as the University of...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 11.15.2019 | Top Story: New Jersey Targets Uber Over “Independent Contractor” Worker Classification

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Sending a shot across the bow of the gig economy, New Jersey is seeking nearly $650 million from Uber for “years of unpaid employment taxes for its drivers, arguing that the ride-hailing company has misclassified the workers...more

K&L Gates LLP

OCR Clarifies Confusion Related to Authorizations for Ongoing and Future Research Purposes

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As mandated by the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016 (the “Cures Act”), in June 2018 the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued guidance clarifying how individual authorizations under the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

New guidance from OCR regarding protected health information

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has issued new guidance on HIPAA and individual authorization of uses and disclosures of protected health information (PHI) for research, as called...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

House Passes Medical Innovation Bill That Would Revise HIPAA

On July 10, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the 21st Century Cures Act (the Act), a bill intended to support advancements in medical innovation. The Act includes measures aimed at spurring medical research,...more

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Technology in Healthcare

From the 2015 PLUS Medical PL Symposium session “Technology in Healthcare: EHRs & PHI,” moderator Patricia Marzella-Graubert (Swiss Re American Holdings Corporation) and panelist Alexander Grijalva (New York Presbyterian...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Time to Take Advantage of HIPAA Omnibus Rule's "Good News": Fundraising, Research, and Student Immunization Records

The Omnibus Rule went into effect on March 26, 2013. While covered entities and business associates have until Sept. 23, 2013, to comply with new restrictions and obligations, they can take advantage of the rule’s benefits...more

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