HIPAA, HITECH & HIT

The American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 (APRA), a bipartisan and “historic” comprehensive data privacy bill unveiled April 8, 2024, would preempt state data privacy laws and be enforced by t...

https://hipaahealthlaw.foxrothschild.com/2024/04/articles/uncategorized/comprehensive-federal-privacy-bill-may-open-backdoor-for-hipaa-private-right-of-action/

Today the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) finalized rules published in December of 2022 changing the requirements for handling SUD patient information governed by 45 CFR part 2 ...

https://hipaahealthlaw.foxrothschild.com/2024/02/articles/uncategorized/confidentiality-of-substance-use-disorder-records-now-more-closely-aligned-with-hipaa/

Exactly 12 days before Christmas, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) gave the health industry a unique gift buried in a 900+ page rule a...

https://hipaahealthlaw.foxrothschild.com/2023/12/articles/uncategorized/groundbreaking-u-s-artificial-intelligence-ai-rule-may-mean-a-healthier-new-year-in-2025-and-beyond/

On November 6, 2023, the HHS Office of Inspector General published a new compilation of compliance guidance under the title General Compliance Program Guidance (GCPG) for the healthcare compli...

https://hipaahealthlaw.foxrothschild.com/2023/12/articles/uncategorized/in-case-you-missed-it-new-oig-general-compliance-program-guidance/

Disregard your Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act obligations at your own risk.  That’s the stark warning covered entities and business associates should take away from a rec...

https://hipaahealthlaw.foxrothschild.com/2023/09/articles/business-associates/l-a-care-to-pay-1-3-million-settlement-over-hipaa-violations-what-you-need-to-know/

Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued a joint letter (“Joint Letter”) (https...

https://hipaahealthlaw.foxrothschild.com/2023/07/articles/google-health/ftc-and-ocr-issue-joint-website-tracking-warning-letter/

Brightree by ResMed (“Brightree”), a cloud-based management software platform for healthcare providers, has conducted its biannual interoperability survey, and issued its corresponding biann...

https://hipaahealthlaw.foxrothschild.com/2023/05/articles/hit-health-information-technol/brightree-and-matrixcare-support-interoperability/

Privacy, data security and regulatory compliance affect companies in every industry. Join leading privacy professionals at our fifth annual Privacy Summit as they discuss some of the most conseq...

https://hipaahealthlaw.foxrothschild.com/2023/04/articles/privacy/register-for-fox-rothschilds-2023-privacy-summit/

As states enact and enforce various laws restricting, prohibiting, and even criminalizing abortion and other reproductive health care services, HIPAA rules that allow disclosure of patient infor...

https://hipaahealthlaw.foxrothschild.com/2023/04/articles/uncategorized/are-we-there-yet-new-hipaa-privacy-protections-for-reproductive-health-data-may-be-just-ahead/

Watch out HHS, the FTC is taking the lead in enforcing privacy violations by companies also subject to HIPAA. BetterHelp, an on-line mental health platform, engaged in unfair and unreasonable pr...

https://hipaahealthlaw.foxrothschild.com/2023/03/articles/uncategorized/better-keep-health-data-private-ftc-signals-to-on-line-health-care-providers/