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Digital Health 101: OCR Issues Resources to Educate Patients on Telehealth, PHI

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On October 18, 2023, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued two resource documents to help explain the privacy and security risks to patients’ protected health...more

K&L Gates LLP

Litigation Minute: Pixel Tools in the Health Care Arena (Pixel Tool Litigation Series: Part Four of Four)

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What You Need to Know in a Minute or Less - The use of pixel technologies on websites and mobile apps in the health care field has garnered considerable attention from regulators and the plaintiffs’ class action bar....more

Morgan Lewis - Health Law Scan

New Legislation Aims to Upgrade HIPAA to Account for New Healthcare Technologies

On February 9, 2022, US Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced bipartisan legislation designed to modernize health privacy laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability...more

Perkins Coie

DHHS Updates Resources for Mobile Health App Developers

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting need for patient access to remote healthcare, as well as the development of contact-tracing apps, have spotlighted the importance of health-focused mobile applications (mHealth apps)....more

Morgan Lewis - Health Law Scan

Health Datapalooza - February 2020

Partner Reece Hirsch recently attended and spoke at the 2020 Health Datapalooza held in Washington, DC. This year, Health Datapalooza was co-located with the National Health Policy Conference, providing attendees with an...more

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Agencies Encourage New Privacy Regulations to Close the mHealth Black Hole and Keep Pace with Evolving Technologies

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On July 19, 2016, the ONC submitted a report to Congress which suggests that health privacy regulations soon may be revised to catch up with the universe of mHealth technologies that now use and share personal health data....more

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OCR New Guidance Aims to Help Medical Mobile App Developers Predict when HIPAA Obligations Might Apply

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Predicting whether the activities of a mobile health application developer trigger legal obligations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) presents some new challenges – not surprising...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Get Your Questions Ready

A lot has changed since the HIPAA Privacy Rule was finalized in 2002 and the HIPAA Security Rule was finalized a year later in 2003. The iPhone had not been released (that happened in 2007), Apple had just released the...more

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