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Last year, the federal Office for Civil Rights (OCR) modified the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule to strengthen protections for reproductive health care information (the “2024 Rule”)....more
On June 25, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the HIPAA Privacy Rule To Support Reproductive Health Care (the “HIPAA Final Rule”) aimed at strengthening privacy...more
On April 22, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a Final Rule prohibiting the use and disclosure of protected health information (PHI) related to lawful...more
Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a complaint in federal district court against HHS and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) challenging a recently issued rule strengthening protection of protected health...more
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and subsequent state abortion bans, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a...more
On April 22, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a Final Rule, entitled ‘HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy’....more
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued its Final Rule to modify HIPAA “to support reproductive health care privacy.” The Final Rule is in response to Executive...more
This past Monday, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its final rule aimed at strengthening the HIPAA Privacy rules as they are applied to reproductive health data....more
Introduction - Following the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade, the federal government, pursuant to President Biden’s Executive Order (the EO) took several steps...more
On April 12, 2023, the Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced proposed changes to HIPAA’s Privacy Rule with regard to reproductive health information. The proposed changes are set out in a...more
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a proposed rule on April 17, 2023, to amend provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to strengthen...more
Proposed Protections for Patient Data Related to Reproductive Care - On April 12, 2023, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) proposed a new rule to strengthen HIPAA...more
On April 17, 2023, OCR published a proposed rule (the Proposed Rule) that would expand protections for reproductive health information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The Proposed Rule...more
On April 12, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Notice” or “NPRM”) to solicit comments on proposed modifications to the HIPAA...more
On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court released its opinion Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 142 S.C. 2228 (2022), reversing Roe v. Wade and holding that the US Constitution does not confer a right to abortion....more
On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization,1 opening a legal path to state laws restricting or prohibiting access to certain reproductive health...more
Millions of women use reproductive health applications (or “apps”) to track menstrual cycles, ovulation, and pregnancy. These apps provide women that use the rhythm method for birth control and women seeking to become...more
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which interpreted a right to abortion in the Constitution through the 14th Amendment, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil...more
On June 29, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued guidance for healthcare providers and patients concerning the privacy protections afforded to a patient’s health information...more
In the wake of the Dobbs decision, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued new guidance regarding the privacy of patients seeking reproductive health care. The guidance...more
Within days of the Supreme Court’s June 24th Dobbs decision, which held that the Constitution does not guarantee the right to an abortion, key government agencies have taken action to protect access to sexual and reproductive...more
In response to the United States Supreme Court decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on Friday, July 8, 2022, designed to protect access to reproductive...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
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, much has been written about how existing privacy laws, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”), are...more
Patient privacy concerns are at an all-time high following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Following their statements affirming that abortion constitutes basic and essential health...more