The Montana Legislature recently passed an update to the state’s Uniform Health Care Information Act (the Act), which creates standards for privacy and security of health care information maintained by Montana health care...more
Q4 2024 marked the conclusion of a turnaround year for life sciences venture investment. After two consecutive years of declining activity and macroeconomic uncertainty, the dust has settled, and investment is back on the...more
Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to update the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule—the...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has updated its Health Breach Notification Rule that applies to non-HIPAA, consumer health data. Among the revisions, the FTC expanded or introduced key definitions and modified the...more
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has issued a final rule updating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule in an effort to...more
Two new privacy laws regulating consumer health data in Nevada and Washington take effect March 31. These novel laws take an expansive view of “consumer health data” and cover much more data than you may expect....more
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has announced a final rule (the Rule) updating the...more
The Nevada legislature recently passed Senate Bill 370 (“Nevada’s Consumer Health Data Privacy Law”) aiming to impose broad requirements on collecting, using, and selling consumer health information. Nevada joins Washington...more
The state of Washington recently enacted My Health My Data (“MHMD”), a game-changing new consumer privacy law focused on health data. MHMD establishes an expansive notice and consent regime for consumer health data with...more
We expect many of the trends of 2021 in health data privacy to continue to pick up steam this year. See below for six noteworthy trends that life sciences and healthcare companies should continue to keep an eye on in 2022: ...more
Attacks on the life sciences and healthcare sectors (healthcare providers and health technology, medical device, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies) increased significantly in the last year, including at the World...more