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Why Every Manufacturer Needs a Robust Information Security Program

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Drug and device manufacturers are increasingly targeted by cyber threats that can compromise patient safety, intellectual property, and other critical data and systems, while also facing new regulatory demands. As regulators...more

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Legal Readiness for AI in Healthcare: A Provider’s Quick Guide

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize industries and is poised to bring transformative change in healthcare delivery, drug discovery, diagnostics, and data analysis and communication. This technology is...more

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Cybersecurity challenges in the health care industry: Legal, regulatory, and risk considerations

Health care remains one of the most targeted and vulnerable sectors when it comes to cyberattacks. In fact, a recent breach at a major health care analytics firm exposed the data of 5.4 million U.S. patients, making it one of...more

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AI Contracts in Health Care: Avoiding the Data Dumpster Fire

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For AI companies in the health care space, data is everything. It fuels model performance, drives product differentiation, and can make or break scalability. Yet too often, data rights are vaguely defined or completely...more

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HIPAA Compliance Risks with AI Scribes in Health Care: What Digital Health Leaders Need to Know

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AI scribes are quickly becoming the digital sidekick of modern health care. They promise to reduce clinician burnout, streamline documentation, and improve the patient experience. But as health care providers and digital...more

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Podcast: Addressing Patient Complaints About Privacy Violations

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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

MoFo Life Sciences

Data Privacy at the Crossroads of AI and Life Sciences: U.S. and EU Perspectives

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AI is transforming the life sciences industry by accelerating drug discovery and personalizing patient care. But as companies increasingly rely on AI to process genetic, biometric, and other types of health data, they must...more

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HIPAA Compliance for AI in Digital Health: What Privacy Officers Need to Know

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping the digital health sector, driving advances in patient engagement, diagnostics, and operational efficiency. However, for Privacy Officers, AI’s integration into digital health...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Top Healthcare Compliance Priorities for 2025

Recently Protiviti released an intriguing report: Top Compliance Priorities for U.S. Healthcare Organizations in 2025. In this podcast their Global Healthcare Compliance Leader, Leyla Erkan, CHC, CHP, CHRC, shares some of the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

PIH Health Settles HIPAA Violations for $600,000

PIH Health, a health care entity located in California, suffered a data breach in June 2019 when 45 employee email accounts were compromised in a targeted phishing campaign. The accounts contained the protected health...more

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Florida Bar Urges Law Firms to Adopt Incident Response Plans: A Call to Action for Legal Professionals

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In late March 2025, the Florida Bar Board of Governors unanimously endorsed the recommendation of its Special Committee on Cybersecurity and Privacy Law that law firms should adopt written incident response plans (IRPs) to...more

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Artificial Intelligence in the Health and Welfare Space: Opportunities and Considerations for Employers

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Artificial intelligence (also commonly referred to as “AI”) is rapidly reshaping industries, and the health and welfare space is no exception. As employers seek innovative ways to improve the administration of health and...more

Purpose Legal

Top AI-Related Concerns in eDiscovery—And How to Address Them

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As a Vice President of Regional Sales at Purpose Legal, I spend a lot of time speaking with legal teams about their biggest concerns when it comes to AI in eDiscovery. Whether I’m meeting with corporate legal departments, law...more

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Security Best Practices for Remote Depositions in the Digital Age

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Trial outcomes often hinge on witness testimony. Attorneys collect much of this testimony during a formal process called a deposition. A critical component of discovery, depositions traditionally occur in law offices or...more

MoFo Life Sciences

AI Agent as a Service in Medtech: Key Considerations for Commercial Contracts

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the medical technology (“medtech”) and healthcare industries through the integration of advanced AI agents. Unlike traditional AI systems that perform discrete, predefined tasks,...more

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Health Fitness, OCR’s Risk Analysis Initiative, and the ERISA Fiduciary Duty to Select Plan Service Providers

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On Friday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the fifth enforcement action under its Risk Analysis Initiative. In this case, OCR reached a settlement with Health...more

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Healthcare Cyberattacks Are on the Rise: Steps to Safeguard Your Organization

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Cyberattacks remain one of the most serious threats facing the healthcare industry. Healthcare providers and their vendors handle sensitive and valuable health data, making them prime targets for cybercriminals....more

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Time for Spring Cleaning – Is Your HIPAA House Ready?

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When it comes to compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and its implementing regulations (“HIPAA”), is your house in order? Has someone recently looked underneath the counter and...more

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Recent Enforcement Reminds Companies: Assess HIPAA Compliance

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A HIPAA compliance assessment is an evaluation of an organization's practices, policies, and procedures to ensure that they align with requirements from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). It...more

Clark Hill PLC

Right To Know - March 2025, Vol. 27

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Cyber, Privacy, and Technology Report - Welcome to your monthly rundown of all things cyber, privacy, and technology, where we highlight all the happenings you may have missed....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Warby Parker Settles Data Breach Case with OCR for $1.5M

Eyeglass manufacturer and retailer Warby Parker recently settled a 2018 data breach investigation by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for $1.5 million. According to OCR’s press release, Warby Parker self-reported that...more

BCLP

Cyber - More Than Just Breach Response

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The vast majority of commentary and public advice concerning data breaches surround, deservedly, the breach itself. This focus is only natural; it is the breach itself that requires victims to bring enormous resources to bear...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

AI Meets HIPAA Security: Understanding HHS’s Risk Strategies and Proposed Changes

In this final blog post in the Bradley series on the HIPAA Security Rule notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), we examine how the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights interprets the...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

OCR Enforcement Activity: Trends and Insights From a Limited Sample

Arecent report put the odds of an asteroid hitting the earth in December 2032 at 3.1%—which is 3,100 times more likely than an organization resolving an enforcement action with the U.S. Department of Health and Human...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Latest Installment of our Mintz Matrix!

Please visit here to visit our Mintz Matrix page with the latest edition of the Mintz Matrix, which is a 50-state resource we have maintained since 2009 to break down and summarize requirements of U.S. state data breach...more

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