With the surge of artificial intelligence (AI) development in recent years, state legislatures, including California's, have contemplated how to balance patient safety and quality of care with the need for and expectation of...more
10/11/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
Electronic Communications ,
Governor Newsom ,
Governor Vetoes ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Hospitals ,
Machine Learning ,
New Legislation ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
Physicians ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Standard of Review
The goal of value-based care (VBC) is to promote better care for individual patients and improved health outcomes for communities at reduced costs. This is an important and admirable purpose as many VBC stakeholders attempt...more
3/5/2024
/ ACOs ,
Alternative Payment Models (APM) ,
Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
CMMI ,
Compliance ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Industry Consolidation ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Advantage ,
OIG ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Rewards Programs ,
Value-Based Care
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) on June 18, 2023. With the passage of TDPSA, Texas becomes the tenth state to adopt a consumer data privacy law. TDPSA passed the...more
7/11/2023
/ Advertising ,
Compliance ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Collection ,
Data Controller ,
Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) ,
Data Selling ,
Governor Abbott ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
Personal Data ,
Personal Information ,
PHI ,
Privacy Laws ,
State Privacy Laws
Providing care via electronic communication when patients and providers are in separate locations, known as telemedicine or telehealth, has been possible for decades. The exigent circumstances sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic...more