Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 243: HIPAA Compliance and Potential Changes with Shannon Lipham of Maynard Nexsen
The Trend of Threatening Physicians for Personal Gain
Navigating Legal Strategies for Covering GLP-1s in Self-Insured Medical Plans — Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Podcast
Podcast: Addressing Patient Complaints About Privacy Violations
Podcast - What Healthcare Providers Should Be Telling Students and Interns About HIPAA and Snooping
Top Healthcare Compliance Priorities for 2025
Podcast - Who Owns Your DNA? Lessons Learned from 23andMe
Building a Solid HR Foundation in Healthcare Practices
New Developments in Health Information Policy
New HIPAA Final Rule: Key Changes to Reproductive Health Care Privacy - Thought Leaders in Health Law®
Healthcare Document Retention
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 192: Business Issues for Healthcare with Ira Bedenbaugh and Randi Branham of Elliott Davis
Business Better Podcast Episode: Cyber Adviser – Your Data, My Headache: Consumer Health Data Laws
Conducting Healthcare Compliance Investigations
The FTC's Health Privacy Enforcement Actions
Web-based Tracking Technology and AI: HIPAA Compliance Issues for Health Care Practices
Podcast: Discussing the Implications of Healthcare Privacy Violations
Podcast: Keeping an Eye on HIPAA Trends with Shannon Hartsfield
Podcast - Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and How to Comply with HIPAA & State Privacy Laws
Meeting Cancer Reporting Requirements
In a sweeping decision published in June, a federal court in Texas struck down most of the HIPAA Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (Reproductive Health Rule) enacted in 2024 under the Biden administration to...more
The intersection of AI and healthcare is outpacing the development of laws and regulations governing the technology. Even in the early days of AI transformation, this is creating uncertainty for healthcare organizations....more
On June 22, 2025, Texas enacted the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (“TRAIGA”), putting it at the forefront of state-level AI regulation in the United States. TRAIGA becomes effective January 1, 2026....more
Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely transforming digital health, including by automating certain patient communications. However, as health care companies consider deploying AI-driven chatbots, texting platforms, and...more
The Data Security Program (DSP), implemented by the Department of Justice's National Security Division (DOJ/NSD) under Executive Order 14117 (Preventing Access to Americans' Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States...more
Important changes are coming to 42 CFR Part 2 (Part 2), which deals with the confidentiality of patients’ substance use disorder (SUD) records. On April 16, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published...more
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
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) adopted a new proposal to strengthen the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security standards...more
As the new year continues, it is useful to review your practice’s processes and policies to ensure that the practice operates with efficiency and remains compliant with ever-changing healthcare regulations....more
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued proposed changes to the HIPAA Security Rule (“Proposed Rule”) on January 6, 2025, and is accepting comments from the public until March 7, 2025. The Proposed Rule...more
On April 22, 2024, the Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy Final Rule. The final rule limits the sharing of protected health...more
The New York Health Information Privacy Act (NYHIPA), if enacted, could create a chilling effect on patient access and engagement to readily available digital health care services relied upon by New Yorkers. Digital health...more
As Cyberattacks targeting the health care sector have continued to intensify over the past year, including ransomware attacks that have resulted in major data breaches impacting health care organizations, the protection of...more
A “tobacco surcharge” is part of many employers’ wellness programs, where the employer charges tobacco users higher health insurance premiums than non-tobacco users. A typical tobacco surcharge program will ask an employee if...more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers unprecedented opportunities to enhance patient care, streamline clinical documentation, and support medical decision-making processes. More and more healthcare professionals find themselves...more
Covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs) may receive a “discount” for having recognized security practices (RSPs) in place when the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) calculates financial penalties for Security...more
The healthcare sector has seen an alarming uptick in cybersecurity incidents, including ransomware attacks, in recent years. In response to these cybersecurity threats, New York State is ramping-up efforts to protect patient...more
Let’s review for a moment. It’s not a HIPAA violation to be a victim of ransomware. It’s not a HIPAA violation to pay a ransom. It’s up to the covered entity (CE) to determine if a security or privacy incident is a...more
Learning Objectives: - Assess and identify how to select metrics that matter in measuring the effectiveness and progress of a compliance program - Align metrics with regulatory requirements and how they apply to one's...more
Looking for compliance education and networking in your area? SCCE & HCCA’s Regional Compliance & Ethics Conferences bring compliance practitioners from all disciplines together for convenient, local compliance education....more
At Cornell University, institutional review board (IRB) members meet with the chief information security officer and a liaison to the general counsel’s office. Their regular attendance has been “really critical,” said IRB...more
Get ready to be inspired with game-changing insights and industry connections! For over two and a half decades, healthcare compliance professionals have gathered at HCCA’s Compliance Institute (CI) to share ideas, learn...more