7/9/2025 3:32:24 AM Reed Smith Client Alert on State Artificial Intelligence Regulation in Health Care By Matthew Loughran The recently enacted 2025 Reconciliation law in its initial iteration had within it a 10 year moratorium on state regulation of...
3/22/2024 2:34:52 PM States’ legislative reaction to Dobbs impacts consumer health data privacy By Wendell Bartnick Angela Matney Vicki Tankle Nancy Halstead +1 more... Show less In the two years since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision from the Supreme Court, state legislatures and courts have attempted...
11/29/2023 12:26:47 AM Artificial Intelligence at the White House and on the Hill: A look at implications for health care By Wendell Bartnick Vanessa Perumal Recent efforts by the federal government to develop a strategy for guiding (and regulating) the use of artificial intelligence (AI) have...
9/22/2023 12:57:50 PM Implementation Underway for Washington’s New Wide-Reaching Consumer Health Data Law By James Hennessy Christian Blair On April 27, 2023, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed into law House Bill 1155, otherwise known as the My Health My Data Act. Certain...
6/27/2023 5:42:54 PM Patient access and big-ticket data breaches lead OCR enforcement initiatives By Catherine David HIPAA enforcement actions in the past year have continued to focus on the patient right to access initiative and large scale data...
4/6/2023 7:46:13 PM Regulators and class action plaintiffs direct attention to health care websites’ and mobile apps’ use of third-party trackers By Matthew Loughran Health care and health care-adjacent organizations are seeing a steep increase in risk arising from the frequently utilized third-party...
9/19/2022 3:38:57 AM Agencies Look for Input on No Surprises Act Good Faith Estimate Rules By Nicole Aiken-Shaban Matthew Loughran Following closely after the clarifying independent dispute resolution process Final Rule, the four executive branch entities tasked with...
6/16/2022 12:00:00 PM California AG urges mobile app companies to safeguard reproductive health data By Matthew Loughran As the U.S. Supreme Court inches closer to the end of its term and a decision in a Mississippi abortion law case that is expected to...
7/15/2021 9:45:40 PM Consensus among HHS agencies on addressing social determinants of health through better data capture, interoperability By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Over the last decade, members of the medical and public health communities around the world have widely studied and acknowledged the...
12/14/2020 7:46:21 PM HHS proposes important changes to key aspects of HIPAA Privacy Rule By Nancy Halstead Brad Rostolsky Vicki Tankle The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the agency that enforces the Health Insurance...
10/2/2020 7:36:05 PM Patient access to health information at the forefront of government initiatives and scrutiny By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Even amidst the chaos of a global pandemic, this year multiple U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies have dialed in...