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Web-based Tracking Technology and AI: HIPAA Compliance Issues for Health Care Practices
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As some studies estimate that nearly 23% of the adult population lives with a mental illness, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into mental health care has transformative potential in terms of accessibility,...more
Drug and device manufacturers are increasingly targeted by cyber threats that can compromise patient safety, intellectual property, and other critical data and systems, while also facing new regulatory demands. As regulators...more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize industries and is poised to bring transformative change in healthcare delivery, drug discovery, diagnostics, and data analysis and communication. This technology is...more
Montana has now become the third state in the US, following Colorado and California, to enact a privacy law that specifically protects neural data – that is, data collected from activity of the central or peripheral nervous...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the medical technology (“medtech”) and healthcare industries through the integration of advanced AI agents. Unlike traditional AI systems that perform discrete, predefined tasks,...more
Welcome to our second issue of 2025 of Decoded - our technology law insights e-newsletter. For those of you with an interest in the Corporate Transparency Act, Brienne Marco and Joe Unger report that the recent injunction...more
Last week, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) released warnings about an embedded function they found in the firmware of the Contec CMS8000,...more
News Briefs - Number of Official Physician Union Drives Soared Over Two Years - While fewer than 10 percent of U.S. physicians are unionized, the number of official union drives among private-sector doctors have skyrocketed...more
On September 29, 2024, California took a significant step forward in data privacy protection by passing a law that extends the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to cover neural data—brain activity and related information...more
Are you responsible for privacy compliance at your company? Sharpen your pencils and grab your highlighters for this three-part series on critical privacy laws, DPOs and privacy officers (and when you should appoint one), and...more
Welcome to Vital Signs, a curated compilation of the latest legal and regulatory developments in digital health. Our lead article reports on HHS' recent final rule on the confidentiality of substance use disorder patient...more
On Jan. 17, 2024, McGuireWoods partners Kimberly Kannensohn and Sam Bernstein conducted a webinar regarding how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) applies to medical device companies and certain...more
On December 6, 2023, HHS released a concept paper that outlines the Department’s cybersecurity strategy for the healthcare sector titled, “Healthcare Sector Cybersecurity Strategy.” HHS reports that cyber incidents in...more
(May 30, 2023) Going forward, medical device approval will require the device maker to provide cybersecurity information to the FDA. Congress made this change by adding Section 524B to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic...more
The life science industry is a significant contributor to the global market, with companies developing and manufacturing a wide range of medical products and devices. However, due to the complex and highly regulated processes...more
In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we look at Washington state’s passage of the first-ever state-level health data privacy law and the finalized California Consumer Privacy Act regulations. We also examine a...more
The PATCH Act: Protecting Medical Devices from Cyber Attacks - In a previous issue of Decoded, we discussed the alarming fact that many medical devices, including those implanted in patients' bodies, are leaving the...more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 3 (March, 2022) - Typically a “legacy” describes the lasting impact of an influential person or movement, most often in a positive sense. Not so with medical devices. When legacy is applied...more
As the collection and use of health data drastically expands, the agency issued a recent guidance to officially put health apps and connected medical devices “on notice.” On September 15, the Federal Trade Commission...more
As we mentioned in the early days of the pandemic, COVID-19 has been accompanied by a rise in cyberattacks worldwide. At the same time, the global response to the pandemic has accelerated interest in the collection, analysis,...more
Attend HCCA’s annual Research Compliance Conference to receive the latest insights and guidance on emerging research compliance risks and solutions. This virtual event, held June 14 – 16, will be live and interactive. Learn...more
The use of digital technologies has accelerated almost overnight due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with healthcare providers and patients finding new and innovative, socially-distanced ways to deliver and receive services. This...more
2020 AG Elections- Ten AG elections were held on November 3, 2020. As of this writing, six incumbent AGs won their elections, and Republicans held the open-seats in Indiana and Montana. In the two undecided races, Democratic...more