On January 28, 2020, the Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) addressed a federal court’s January 23rd invalidation of certain provisions of t...
School leaders are often understandably confused as to which law applies to health- or medical-related records in schools: The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) or the Health Insura...
After a patient data sharing deal came to light between Google and Ascension Health, the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) says the federal government needs to update the Health Insuran...
The Health Information Technology Advisory Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved its second annual report to Congress on the state of health IT landscape, reco...
(Reuters Health) – The privacy protections Americans have come to expect when it comes to their medical information may not always apply in school settings, a new report suggests.
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Last summer, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act. The SHIELD Act’s data breach notification requirements are already ef...
Handling a subpoena for medical records creates the potential for either a HIPAA violation or a contempt of court citation. How a healthcare organization responds to a subpoena for me...
Frequently, hospitals and other healthcare providers will want to conduct HIPAA medical surveys or questionnaires of patients, to determine whether patients were satisfied with the quality of care ...
The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) of 2008 was the first state law in the country to regulate biometric data use. For physicians, the intersection of laws such as BIPA and the fe...
William Buckley famously described a conservative as a person who “stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urg...
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