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Comment Period Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Data Privacy

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Top 10 takeaways from the new HIPAA security rule NPRM

On Jan. 6, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed new regulations to enhance cybersecurity protections for electronic protected health information (ePHI) under the Health Insurance Portability...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Proposed Update to the HIPAA Security Rule

In early January, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The Proposed Rule would modify the Security Standards for the Protection of...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Proposed HIPAA Security Rule Updates — Implications for Covered Entities and Their Information Security Programs

On January 6, 2025, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (Proposed Rule) updating the Health Insurance Portability and...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

HHS Proposes Significant Updates to HIPAA Security Rule

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On January 6, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) to amend the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...more

BakerHostetler

FTC’s 20th Public Meeting - Privacy, Privacy and More Privacy

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It has been a while since we last gathered for one of the monthly public meetings of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission). Clearly, the monthly nature of the meetings is questionable, but then again, there are...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Proposed Changes to Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records Rules Would Support Better Care, Decrease Stigma,...

Amid the ongoing proliferation of headlines about the mental health crisis in the United States, of which substance use disorder is a large part, the recent issuance by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

NIST Plans to Update HIPAA Security Guidance – Asks for Comments

Recently, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) requested comments to its Resource Guide for implementing the HIPAA Security Rule. (i.e., SP 800-66). This Guide, first released in 2008, summarizes the...more

Wiley Rein LLP

California Privacy Law on the Ballot: What to Expect on California’s Upcoming Ballot Initiative to Expand and Amend the CCPA

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Next month, California voters will cast their votes on Proposition 24, a ballot initiative that, if passed, will enact the California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act of 2020 (CPRA). The CPRA would significantly amend the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 6. Privacy Briefs: June 2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 6 (June 2020): A divided Indiana Court of Appeals has reinstated a patient’s claim that a hospital is vicariously liable for the actions of a medical assistant who accessed the patient’s...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

HHS Proposes Revisions to Part 2 Regulations Governing Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Records - Healthcare Alert

On August 26, 2019, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), published its much-anticipated notice of proposed rulemaking to revise 42...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Deadline Approaching to Submit Comments on Potential Updates to HIPAA in Response to Agency Request for Information

There are less than two weeks left to submit comments regarding potential updates to the privacy, security and breach notification regulations adopted under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

OCR Seeks Ideas on HIPAA Rule Changes to Promote Value-Based Care and Coordinated Care

The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued a request for information (“RFI”) to assist OCR in identifying provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) privacy and security regulations (the...more

Holland & Knight LLP

OCR Seeks HIPAA Comments on Coordinated Care

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The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a Request for Information, which is scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on Dec. 14, 2018. OCR is asking the public to provide...more

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Will California’s New Privacy Law be Preempted? Federal Hearings and Public Comments Begin

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Although numerous attempts have been made to pass a comprehensive U.S. privacy law over the years, this one might actually succeed. Efforts have begun on multiple fronts. From Senate Commerce Committee hearings to several...more

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