The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on June 18, 2025, issued an order vacating the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy, published on April 26, 2024, which amended the Health...more
6/20/2025
/ Data Privacy ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HIPAA Privacy Rule ,
Judicial Review ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
PHI ,
Privacy Laws ,
Reproductive Healthcare Issues ,
Statutory Authority ,
Vacated
In the third and final episode of Florida Capital Conversations' healthcare privacy series, Tallahassee attorneys Shannon Hartsfield and Eddie Williams join hosts Nathan Adams and Mia McKown to discuss the challenges of...more
In this episode of our “Florida Capital Conversations” podcast series, healthcare attorneys Mia McKown, Eddie Williams and Shannon Hartsfield discuss how privacy violations can put a healthcare practitioner's license at risk....more
In this episode of our “Florida Capital Conversations” podcast series, healthcare attorney Eddie Williams joins to discuss the dissemination of electronic health information and provisions regarding information blocking. He...more
Telehealth has been around for decades, but restrictive reimbursement rules kept it out of widespread use for many treatment needs. Then along came the COVID-19 pandemic and everything changed rapidly. Suddenly, due to the...more
10/5/2022
/ Compliance ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Data Privacy ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
GAO ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Information Reports ,
Medical Reimbursement ,
OCR ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
Companies in the healthcare space sometimes tout to prospective customers that they are "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant." A recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settlement suggests that...more
Privacy revisions under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) may be on the horizon, with some potential changes that could benefit both patients and the healthcare industry. Other changes, if...more
12/11/2020
/ Comment Period ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
EHR ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Medical Records ,
NPRM ,
OCR ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
PHI ,
Proposed Rules ,
Right of Access
As new healthcare delivery models evolve, we may see an increase in hospitals that share space with other hospitals or healthcare entities. On May 3, 2019, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued draft...more
HIPAA and several other privacy laws do not include a private right of action. This is cold comfort for healthcare providers, health plans and other members of the healthcare industry if a patient is able to demonstrate that...more
11/16/2018
/ Appeals ,
Breach of Duty ,
Common Law Torts ,
Data Privacy ,
Department of Corrections ,
Duty of Confidentiality ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Former Employee ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Medical Records ,
Negligence ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
Physicians ,
Privacy Laws ,
Private Right of Action
The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAHMSA) published a Final Rule on January 3, 2018 making further changes to federal rules governing the confidentiality of substance use disorder patient...more
CMS issued a memo to state survey agency directors on December 28, 2017, to clarify CMS’s position on texting patient information. The memo, which indicates that it is effective “immediately,” states that CMS prohibits...more