On July 1, 2024, the amendments to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) went into effect. First promulgated in 2009, the HBNR applies to vendors of personal health records — entities that are not covered by the Health...more
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The U.S. privacy landscape has changed rapidly over the past few years. But the most significant recent changes relate to “consumer health data” — health information about identified or identifiable consumers that falls...more
On April 2, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services (OCR) announced that, effective immediately, they would exercise “enforcement discretion” regarding disclosures of COVID-19-related...more