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Join us for a webinar on FTC advertising and privacy compliance for health service providers, including in emerging areas of FTC and state attorney general interest. Also joining as a featured panelist is Mary Engle,...more
Digital health care companies have navigated a wave of new developments at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the past few years. With new leadership in the Trump Administration, the FTC may be poised to change some of...more
The proposed New York Health Information Privacy Act (NYHIPA), currently awaiting Governor Kathy Hochul’s signature, represents a major step in the state’s approach to protecting personal health data in the digital age. At...more
News Briefs - Hospitals Urged to Check for Accuracy as AI Use Increases -About 65 percent, or 1,696, of U.S. hospitals surveyed reported using artificial intelligence or predictive models integrated with their electronic...more
We bring you Vital Signs, a curated, one-stop resource on the most notable digital health law updates from our U.S. and global contributors. In Industry Insights, we present a timely discussion about increasing litigation and...more
The revamped Health Breach Notification Rule by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took effect on July 29, 2024, expanding consumer privacy protections to the users of online health platforms and health and wellness apps. Our...more
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently published its Final Rule amending the Health Breach Notification Rule (“HBNR”). The updated HBNR, which regulates entities that handle certain personal health information, other...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule to amend its Health Breach Notification Rule (HBN Rule). The HBN Rule requires certain entities that handle unsecured personally identifiable health data to notify...more
The FTC recently announced that it had finalized the changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR). This is roughly one year later from when the proposed changes were first released and three years later from the...more
A recently announced settlement with online alcohol addiction treatment service Monument Inc. demonstrates the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) continued focus on the use and disclosure of health data. The proposed settlement...more
On April 26, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a Final Rule that amends the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR or Rule) to significantly broaden the FTC’s enforcement power in the area of digital health....more
Kaiser Permanente is notifying 13.4 million current and former members that their personal information may have been compromised when it was transmitted to tech giants Google, Microsoft Bing and X (formerly Twitter) when...more
On April 26, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced it had finalized changes to modernize the Health Breach Notification Rule (the “HBNR”) by clarifying its applicability to health and wellness apps and other...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced two proposed settlement agreements (in the form of a stipulated order) (the “consent orders”) with Monument, Inc., an alcohol addiction treatment service, and Cerebral,...more
The FTC has updated its HBNR to clarify that the rule also restricts marketing practices involving personal health information. This update to the HBNR was announced on April 26, 2024, and follows several recent enforcement...more
According to the Theft Resource Center and its 2022 data breach reports, data privacy and security threats are impacting all aspects of the healthcare industry – from providers to payers to medical device companies to...more
Welcome to the November edition of Akin Intelligence. Looking back, October 2023 may be remembered as the month when the U.S. government tried to assume the mantle of global leadership on responsible artificial intelligence...more
Just a few years ago, the legal landscape governing health-related personal information was relatively simple: Protected Health Information (PHI) was regulated under Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...more
What You Need to Know in a Minute or Less - The use of pixel technologies on websites and mobile apps in the health care field has garnered considerable attention from regulators and the plaintiffs’ class action bar....more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been aggressively pursuing enforcement actions that involve companies using applications that share consumer personal health information with third parties in violation of the Health...more
In this episode of "Counsel That Cares," privacy and cybersecurity attorney Ashley Thomas discusses the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and its more stringent approach toward digital health companies. She discusses the FTC's...more
On June 27, 2023, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) released its final rule (“Final Rule”) implementing penalties for information blocking....more
The FTC and OCR at HHS are continuing to scrutinize the use of tracking technologies that may reveal information about a person’s health or health status. Both agencies recently sent a letter to a reported 130 hospitals and...more
Summary - On May 18, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Proposed Rule”), which both clarifies the scope of the Health Breach Notification Rule (“HBN Rule”) to include...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently proposed changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule (Rule), enacted in 2009, to clarify that the Rule applies directly to an estimated 170,000 health and wellness mobile...more