Podcast - What Healthcare Providers Should Be Telling Students and Interns About HIPAA and Snooping
Compliance and Value-Based Care
Podcast - Data Privacy and Tracking Technology Compliance
Podcast: Discussing the Implications of Healthcare Privacy Violations
Podcast: Discussing Information Blocking with Eddie Williams
AI Risks in Healthcare
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 131: Jordon Ritchie, Chief Executive Officer, Aimedica
Expanded Information Block Rules Go into Effect
Healthcare Privacy Walkthroughs
Podcast: Interoperability: Information Blocking Claims and Enforcement - Diagnosing Health Care
Podcast: Interoperability: Health Care's Next Disruptor Is openEHR - Diagnosing Health Care
Podcast: Interoperability: A New Vision Through openEHR - Diagnosing Health Care
HIPAA Tips With Williams Mullen - Health Care Providers - Are You Ready for a Ransomware Attack?
Hybrid Workforces and Compliance with Sheila Limmroth
Podcast: DOJ Goes After Civil Cyber-Fraud - Diagnosing Health Care
Podcast: Interoperability - the Role of Health Information Exchanges - Diagnosing Health Care
Podcast: Interoperability: The Provider Perspective - Diagnosing Health Care
Podcast–Interoperability: How Far We’ve Come and Where We’re Going - Diagnosing Health Care
Getting Personal—Wearable Devices, Data, and Compliance
Gerry Blass on Healthcare Vendor Risk Management
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In a major development for all businesses handling health data, New York lawmakers passed a sweeping health data privacy bill Wednesday that could have far-ranging consequences across the country. S929, also known as the New...more
A California federal court recently ruled that disclosure of certain data collected through website cookies that may qualify as health information could trigger a data breach under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) –...more
In Argentina, data protection is governed by comprehensive legislation aimed at safeguarding individuals' personal data. Below you will find an outline of the key aspects including governing legislation, exploring their scope...more
In just a few short weeks, a new front may emerge for biometrics litigation in the United States. On March 31, 2024, the My Health My Data Act (“MHMDA”) will go into effect in Washington for most entities that conduct...more
Friendly reminder – the Washington My Health My Data Act (“WMHMDA”) compliance deadline for regulated entities to post their consumer health data privacy policy is March 31, 2024 (June 30, 2024 for small businesses). A...more
2023 brought a surge of data privacy developments, with a large expansion of state comprehensive privacy laws, litigation of new claims based on older laws (e.g. wiretapping and VPPA cases), increased scrutiny on data...more
This is Part Twelve, the final installment of our series of legal updates on the Washington My Health My Data Act (“WMHMDA”). We are thrilled that you came along as we dove into the intricacies of WMHMDA that are creating...more
This is Part Eleven in a series of legal updates on the Washington My Health My Data (“WMHMDA”), where Quarles continues its deep dive into the various factors and intricacies of WMHMDA that are creating waves in the privacy...more
For decades, medical providers and other covered entities have satisfied their health-data privacy obligations by complying with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) — but this is changing...more
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
This is Part Seven in a series of legal updates on the Washington My Health My Data (“WMHMDA”), where Quarles continues its deep dive into the various factors and intricacies of WMHMDA that are creating waves in the privacy...more
On June 16, 2023, Nevada enacted Senate Bill 370 (“SB 370”), which imposes broad restrictions on the collection, use, and sale of consumer health data. This law is set to go into effect on March 31, 2024....more
This is Part Two in a series of legal updates on the Washington My Health My Data Act (“WMHMDA”) where Quarles is doing a deep dive into the various factors and intricacies of the Act that are shaping up to create a sea of...more
Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 1 (January 2023) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said a data breach at a Medicare subcontractor impacted the personally identifiable information and protected...more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 8 (August, 2022) - The Department of Justice (DOJ) seized around $500,000 in Bitcoin ransom paid by two health care organizations in Kansas and Colorado to North Korean ransomware actors...more
The US Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has raised many questions about potential efforts by law enforcement agencies to obtain data from healthcare and...more
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Authored by Justice Alito, the decision, which hewed closely to the draft opinion that was leaked on May 2, 2022, upheld...more
The retention of prolific sensitive, personal electronic information has essentially become a responsibility inherent in the conduct of modern business. From the maintenance of medical records by a healthcare provider to the...more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 1 (January, 2022) - New Jersey issued its third settlement in three months on state-level health care privacy and security laws, announcing that three cancer care providers would adopt new...more
Once reserved for routine doctors’ appointments, collecting health-related data has exploded as consumers start to monitor their own health metrics—everything from sleep and fertility to mental health and COVID-19—and...more
A few months ago on this blog, I wrote about using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to keep up with the “alphabet soup” of compliance. An important area to address from a compliance standpoint is health data and at least two of...more
Digitalization and the proliferation of apps have changed the relationship in healthcare between data, the patient and provider, explains Hema Lakkaraju, CEO and founder of Hayag Corporation. It is often unclear who is...more
Ian Campbell, the President and CEO of iCONECT, has a design background and, prior to founding iCONECT, he worked in advertising and founded his own agency. In 2012 iCONECT launched its flagship review product, Xera, which...more
The Pandemic has fast-tracked the use of telehealth services. Hussein Akhavannik discusses how medical device companies are looking to add to or expand remote monitoring capabilities. However, some capabilities raise legal...more