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Health Care Executive Orders And Legal Actions: Part Six

On March 14, 2025, President Trump rescinded a number of Biden-era executive orders (EOs), two of which are health related. Executive Order 13994 (2021): The Ensuring a Data Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future...more

McGuireWoods Consulting

Health Care Executive Orders And Legal Actions: Part Three

Public Health - Withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO)...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

August 2023 Global Immigration Alert

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Please note, while we address some country-specific updates related to the COVID-19 pandemic, this Alert contains information regarding global restrictions and closures as they stand today. Given the constantly changing...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Class Action Filed Against Commonwealth of Massachusetts for Alleged COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Spyware Installation

This week, a lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for its use of a COVID-19 contact-tracing app for residents’ mobile phones. However, very few residents...more

Lathrop GPM

2022 Legal Guide to Privacy and Data Security

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Facial recognition technology, drones the size of a butterfly, secure microchips replacing magnetic stripes on credit cards, sensors the size of a grain of sand swallowed by patients that transmit data directly to the...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Can Employers Use Artificial Intelligence And Data Analytics To Track Remote Workers?

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Notwithstanding federal, state, and local privacy and cybersecurity laws that may apply, employers may generally use artificial intelligence, data analytics, and other software and technologies to track remote workers. The...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

A Second Chance for the Public Health Emergency Privacy Act

This is the seventh alert in a series of Bradley installments on privacy and cybersecurity developments arising from the COVID-19 pandemic... Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) has re-introduced a bill to create the Public Health...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Best in Law: Protecting Privacy on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps

Glen Price Discusses Privacy Issues Around COVID-19 CA Notify App and Others - From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials around the world have looked to use the benefits of big data and the...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Privacy Concerns When Contact Tracing in the Health Care Workplace - Diagnosing Health Care Podcast

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Contact tracing will continue to play a big role in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in understanding the impact of vaccines. Attorneys Michelle Capezza, Karen Mandelbaum, and Jessika Tuazon look at the privacy...more

McDermott Will & Emery

International News: Focus on Global Privacy and Cybersecurity - September 2020

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Generally, contact tracing refers to an effort by public health officials to identify individuals with whom a patient who has tested positive for an infectious disease has been in close proximity. Public health officials will...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Will The Public Health Emergency Privacy Act Make It Into the Next Stimulus Package?

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Despite several attempts, Congress has struggled to push forward a federal consumer privacy law over the past few years. But the COVID-19 pandemic, which has raised concerns regarding location monitoring, GPS tracking and use...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] Around the Corner: Evolving Opportunities and Challenges for Real-World Evidence and Data-Powered Solutions - August...

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Healthcare research has faced severe disruption during the COVID-19 public health emergency and underscored the need for novel technological solutions that harness and utilize data beyond traditional clinical research models....more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

[Webinar] Reopening Wine Businesses: Employee and Consumer Data Privacy - July 9th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am PT

The shelter-in-place orders prevented in-person tastings from happening, throwing a curve ball to the wine industry. As the wine country slowly prepares to reopen, it will not be the same experience pre-COVID-19 pandemic. For...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

Balch & Bingham LLP

Apple and Google Launch Contact Tracing and Coronavirus Exposure Software

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1. Details about Apple/Google Launch - Yesterday (May 20, 2020), Apple and Google launched software that will allow public health authorities to create mobile applications that notify people when they may have come in contact...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Information Governance Questions To Explore During And After Coronapocalypse

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It’s no news to anyone at this point that work has drastically changed in response to COVID-19. Working from home, designating essential employees, wearing masks, checking temperatures, and making other adaptations are common...more

Balch & Bingham LLP

House and Senate Democrats Introduce Public Health Emergency Privacy Act

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Senators Blumenthal (D-CT) and Mark Warner (D-VA) introduced the Public Health Emergency Privacy Act (“PHEPA”) into the Senate. A companion house bill was introduced by Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

CISA Again Makes Major Changes To Its Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce Guidance

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Several states that have issued shelter-in-place orders or required nonessential businesses to close to slow the spread of COVID-19, reference or rely upon the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity & Infrastructure...more

White and Williams LLP

A National Registry of COIVD-19 Patients: The Legal Implications

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Medical data companies are reportedly volunteering to join the fight against COVID-19 by offering to broadly share confidential, HIPAA-protected patient medical information they possess, including patient demographics,...more

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GDPR Compliance To Do List For Employers Processing Coronavirus-Related Data

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In a new guidance for employers, Hungary's Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság Data Protection Authority provides a helpful to-do list to help companies comply with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Privacy Versus Pandemic: Health Privacy Considerations in Response to COVID-19

As COVID-19 continues to spread, health care providers, health plans and employers are facing difficult privacy questions as they attempt to balance privacy concerns against the need to protect patients, employees and...more

White and Williams LLP

Data Sharing Being Emphasized in the Battle Against COVID-19

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In effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, we are beginning to see regulatory regimes increase the focus on data sharing with public health authorities, as well as some targeted loosening of privacy protections in the hope...more

Flaster Greenberg PC

4 Ways To Keep Your Business Secure During The COVID-19 Pandemic

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On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the coronavirus to be a pandemic. This is significant for several reasons. The first is that the way we interact has drastically, and must...more

Blank Rome LLP

Coronavirus Upate: Ensuring Privacy in a Time of Crisis

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In what feels like the blink of an eye, the coronavirus (“COVID-19”) has reached the shores of the United States and spread across the country in an unprecedented fashion. On March 13, 2020, President Trump officially...more

Hogan Lovells

Coronavirus and Data Protection: Europe’s Data Protection Authorities’ Views

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Data protection authorities from around the world are stepping in to provide their input and guidance on the matter of data processing activities and the fight against the coronavirus.  Hogan Lovells’ global Privacy and...more

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