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Aspen Dental Settles Data-Sharing Class Action

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Dental service organization (DSO) Aspen Dental has agreed to pay $18.7 million to resolve claims that it secretly shared web user data with Meta and Google, without obtaining users’ consent or informing them....more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

Federal Wiretapping Claims – The Next Frontier?

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Readers of this blog may recall a recent favorable decision handed down by Massachusetts State’s highest court in which it found that Massachusetts Wiretap Act claims (“MWA”) do not extend to consumer interactions with...more

Fisher Phillips

Beyond HIPAA: What Businesses Need to Know as States Join Trend to Protect Consumer Health Data

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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

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Washington to Pass Benchmark Privacy Protections for Consumer Health Data: The 10 Most Important Questions for Businesses

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Washington State lawmakers just passed the most consequential privacy legislation in the country since the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was adopted in 2018, which will soon require businesses to take significant...more

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FTC Cracks Down on BetterHelp’s Sharing of Health Information for Advertising

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Following its February settlement with GoodRx, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fired another shot across the bow in its ongoing campaign to protect consumers’ digital health information. Earlier this month the FTC...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Analyzing the Washington State My Health My Data Act

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Keypoint: In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, Washington legislators introduced legislation to enhance privacy protections for consumer health data. In early March, lawmakers in Washington state’s House...more

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Data Brokers and Mental Health Information – Lack of Protections and Regulations

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As consumer data collection continues to rise in the United States and around the world, aggregated health data is becoming a more common product bought and sold by data brokers. While worrying on its own, even more...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2021

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Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 2 (February 2021) - The Florida Healthy Kids Corporation (FHKC), a Medicaid managed care plan, said one of its vendors, Jelly Bean Communications Design, experienced a security incident...more

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Compliance Perspectives: The Ethics of Data

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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

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As Covered Entities Inch Toward Normalcy, Thorny Worker, Patient Privacy Issues Arise

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Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 6 (June 2020): Being a health care provider in the midst of a pandemic is complicated enough, between offering telehealth services, perhaps for the first time, and helping workers continue...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

COVID-19 Update: Data sharing requests and orders for hospitals

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Recently, health care providers – in particular hospitals – have been requested by the federal government to share data related to the treatment of COVID-19 (coronavirus) patients and have been ordered by the Ohio Department...more

K&L Gates LLP

K&L Gates Triage: ONC Signals Federal Health IT Priorities with 2020-2025 Strategic Plan

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In this week’s episode, Ryan Severson discusses the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, which was recently released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ONC”). Mr. Severson discusses...more

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Google Health's Partnerships Raise Privacy Concerns

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Google Health’s Partnerships Raise Privacy Concerns - Recently, Google has been at the center of privacy concerns due to its health- sharing collaborations with the University of Chicago Medical Center (the Medical Center)...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Changing the Conversation About Sharing and Using Health Information

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Some app developers know more about our health than our doctors do. Take, for instance, FitBit, which is attached to our wrist and measuring in real time our temperature, our heart rate, our steps and whether we have had...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Getting Cross-Industry Collaborations Right, Part 2: All About That Data

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As discussed in the first post in this two-part series, new players from outside the traditional healthcare paradigm are joining forces with hospitals, health systems and other providers to drive unprecedented innovation....more

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Artificial Intelligence Updates

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There have been several recent announcements from the administration and Congress on artificial intelligence. Some of those highlights include...more

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CMS Releases Proposed Rule to Advance Interoperability and the Exchange of Medical Record and Plan Information

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CMS issued a long-awaited proposed rule aimed at enhancing interoperability and increasing patient access to health information. If finalized, CMS’s proposed rule may require hospitals and payors to make significant...more

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Strategies to Unlock AI’s Potential in Healthcare Part 6: Commercialization of AI Tools in Healthcare – the Challenge of Securing...

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As noted in previous posts in this series, AI tools hold great promise for applications in healthcare. To date, AI tools in healthcare primarily leverage machine learning technology – i.e., the machine’s ability to keep...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

New Report Outlines 5 Year Plan to Achieve Cancer Moonshot

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The Cancer Moonshot Task Force has just released its 5 year plan for implementing President Obama’s “Cancer Moonshot” program (“Report”). The initiative, announced during President Obama’s 2016 State of the Union Address, is...more

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Illinois Revises Data Privacy Statute

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Earlier this year, Illinois enacted a number of changes to the Illinois Personal Information Protection Act (“PIPA”). The amendments to PIPA, among other things, expand the definition of personal information subject to...more

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