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
Just when you thought the confusing COVID-19 ERISA deadline extensions were behind you, the Biden-Harris Administration asks you to reconsider. ...more
SECURE 2.0 Act - As part of a large year-end piece of legislation, the provisions known as SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”) were enacted into law. SECURE 2.0 represents a broadly bipartisan piece of legislation that...more
The Supreme Court of the United States held in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion, overruling long-standing precedent in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood...more
Health and retirement benefit plans subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) have troves of personal information regarding plan participants and their beneficiaries - e.g., participants’ age, marital...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Because everything has a coronavirus angle now….this blog post covers various issues and considerations plan sponsors and administrators should keep in mind as the coronavirus outbreak continues to...more
We recognize that many of our clients sponsor ERISA welfare benefit plans and are currently undergoing their open enrollment process and issuing related participant communications. To assist our clients with that process, we...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Fiduciary Rule is Finally Dead or Is It? The U.S. Department of Labor (“DoL”) permitted the Fifth Circuit’s decision overruling the fiduciary rule in its entirety on a nationwide basis due to...more
Where is your PHI Data Traveling Today? With most vendors offering and pushing cloud computing solutions and offsite data backup, or guaranteeing offsite backup of data they process for you, many HIPAA covered entities and...more
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA), protects plan participant benefits and account balances by imposing high standards of care on the plan’s fiduciaries. Fiduciaries who do not follow...more
The Vulnerability of Healthcare Information - According to a report the Brookings Institute issued in May 2016, 23% of all data breaches occur in the healthcare industry. Nearly 90% of healthcare organizations had some...more
Employee benefit plan data stored online may include participants’ names and Social Security numbers, account information and protected health information (PHI), all of which are inviting targets for hackers....more
With the onslaught of Affordable Care Act changes, health plan sponsors have much to think about lately. Given the number of other issues affecting them, plan sponsors may feel that HIPAA privacy and security is an issue they...more
It is likely that you are familiar with the HIPAA Security Rule’s mandate that covered entities and business associates document the decision making process that led to the selection of their means to achieve security for...more
Our articles this month focus on health care reform. First, Jim Napoli and Brian Neulander comment on the potential for litigation under the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) whistleblower protections and ERISA Section 510 as a...more
As we have reported in this blog, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently released final regulations containing modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement, and...more