Podcast - Data Privacy and Tracking Technology Compliance
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 10
AI Risks in Healthcare
Business Associates Here, There, and Everywhere: When Does Your Service Provider Really Need to Sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement?
Healthcare Privacy Walkthroughs
HIPAA Tips With Williams Mullen - Health Care Providers - Are You Ready for a Ransomware Attack?
Hybrid Workforces and Compliance with Sheila Limmroth
Privacy and Healthcare Business Associates with Isabella Porter
Podcast: Interoperability: The Provider Perspective - Diagnosing Health Care
HIPAA Tips With Williams Mullen - COVID Health Information and HIPAA – Do You Know the Rules?
Podcast–Interoperability: How Far We’ve Come and Where We’re Going - Diagnosing Health Care
State Law Privacy Video Series | Healthcare Entities and Health Data
Getting Personal—Wearable Devices, Data, and Compliance
AGG Talks: Technology - In the Balance: Interoperability and Security
Podcast: How Can Companies in the Health Care and Life Sciences Industries Strengthen Their Cybersecurity Posture? - Diagnosing Health Care
Nick Culbertson on Compliance Breaches in Healthcare
Privacy Series: HIPAA Breaches - When It Is, and When It Is Not a Breach
Podcast: Are Vaccine Passports the Key to Reopening? - Diagnosing Health Care
HIPPA: Privacy & Security and Potential Rule Changes
Compliance Perspectives: Privacy Investigations in a Virtual World
In late April, Washington's governor signed the My Health My Data Act, or MHMD, into law. The law, which goes into effect next year, aims to regulate the vast amount of health-related data processing that takes place...more
The COVID-19 pandemic presented numerous challenges for employers and workplaces across the globe. While COVID is not gone, the federal government did recently end the federal public health emergency. Shortly thereafter, on...more
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic visited on America in the past several months has quickly reinvigorated the foundational and important debate concerning where, in a free society, individual autonomy ends (or should end) and...more
The EEOC continues to update its pandemic preparedness guidance regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act, and other Equal Employment Opportunity laws in the wake of COVID-19. The guidance...more
HHS recently announced that it will not impose penalties if business associates disclose protected health information relating to COVID-19 during the public health emergency period. This waiver, announced in a Notification of...more
On April 2, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced a Notification of Enforcement Discretion to allow certain uses and disclosures of Protected Health...more
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues and our health system is pushed to and beyond capacity, lawmakers and stakeholders are assessing different ways to handle the incredible volume of patients suddenly needing care. One...more
We want to share with you our views on some benefits-related questions affecting group health plans that have been coming up recently as employers deal with the coronavirus. HIPAA in the Age of COVID-19 – In February, the...more
On March 13, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a series of limited waivers related to the HIPAA Privacy rule in response to the declaration of a national emergency related to the 2019 Novel...more
The fluid and fast-changing impact of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) has left institutions of higher education (IHEs) scrambling to address unexpected legal issues. This guidance addresses some of their more frequently asked...more
As the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic grows, employers and others may be wondering how the public health emergency created by the outbreak affects information protected under the Health Insurance Portability and...more
Although COVID-19 is not the first pandemic to hit the United States, the virus has thrown the country into uncharted territory as federal and state governments and agencies struggle to contain the virus’s quick-moving...more
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) last month provided guidance and a reminder to HIPAA covered entities and their business associates regarding the sharing of patient health information (PHI) under the Health Insurance...more
The respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus was first detected in China and has now been detected in almost 70 locations internationally, including in the United States....more
Click here to read more on the coronavirus According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the immediate risk of being exposed to COVID-19 (aka, the coronavirus) is thought to be low. While the virus is not...more
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued Interim Guidance for Administrators of U.S. Institutions of Higher Education and for K-12 schools and childcare programs, asking them to collaborate and...more
Since the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) was first detected in December, the death toll has continued to rise as the virus quickly spreads. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) officials have stated that while the immediate...more
Health care providers, health plans and others monitoring the recent coronavirus outbreak should be aware of how patient information can and cannot be shared and used under applicable laws, including the HIPAA privacy rule,...more
The outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has created a number of questions and compliance challenges for employers in the United States as well as across the globe. This is a fluid and rapidly changing...more
I. REGULATIONS, NOTICES, & GUIDANCE - On February 24, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a guidance entitled, “Special Enrollment Confirmation Process” that will enhance program integrity...more
The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) has issued guidance to remind HIPAA-covered entities of the ways in which they are permitted under HIPAA to share protected health information...more
On Oct. 6, 2014, a final rule issued jointly by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will require all HIPAA-covered labs...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently published a Final Rule granting patients and their personal representatives access to the patient’s completed laboratory test reports directly from the lab...more