6/23/2025 1:27:24 PM A Week that Changed Health Care Law By Matthew Loughran Well, that was quite a week. Even with a federal holiday right in the middle, there were a number of developments in health care law that...
6/19/2025 1:09:37 PM Federal Court Vacates 2024 Reproductive Health Privacy Rule By Vicki Tankle Nancy Halstead Angela Matney Sarah Cummings Stewart Kristin Parker +2 more... Show less Late on Wednesday June 18, Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an order...
12/12/2024 5:17:25 PM OCR Sets Precedent with Settlement Over Impermissible Disclosure of Reproductive Health Information By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Angela Matney Garrison Ambrose +1 more... Show less The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) will start to enforce compliance later this month with...
6/3/2024 2:38:43 PM HHS Pledges $50 million to Empower Hospitals in the Battle Against Cyberattacks By Amica Nesbitt Hospitals and large healthcare organizations have increasingly become prime targets for cybercriminals. In response, the Department of...
4/26/2024 2:28:00 AM HHS Modifies HIPAA Privacy Rule to Shield Reproductive Health Information from Third Party Access By Scot T. Hasselman Lesley Reynolds Nicole Aiken-Shaban Whitney Petrie Taber Rueter Matthew Loughran +3 more... Show less In a final rule published on April 26, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) amends the HIPAA Privacy Rule to bolster...
6/21/2023 6:07:43 PM HIPAA Privacy Rule commenters express concerns about privacy, health outcomes, LQBTQIA+ rights, and historical health care disparities By Catherine David The comment period for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR proposed changes to Privacy Rule...
4/24/2023 5:41:27 PM Proposed changes to HIPAA highlight increased demands for third party access to reproductive health data By Catherine David Brad Rostolsky Smita Patil Whitney Petrie Adriana Santomero +2 more... Show less On Monday, April 12, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a notice of proposed...
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...
1/10/2023 7:44:38 PM HHS proposes update to Part 2 confidentiality regulations to align with HIPAA By Vicki Tankle Craig Anderson Arielle Lusardi The Department of Health and Human Services recently issued a proposed rule that would streamline the federal regulations governing the...
12/17/2022 12:54:33 AM HHS OCR Issues Bulletin on HIPAA Compliance for Tracking Technologies By Vicki Tankle Angela Matney Wendy Choi The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently issued a bulletin highlighting...
7/6/2022 2:46:53 PM New Guidance by OCR addresses HIPAA and Disclosures of Information relating to Reproductive Health By Craig Anderson On June 29, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued two pieces of guidance...
1/12/2022 5:29:45 PM HHS issues Guidance on permitted HIPAA disclosures to prevent gun violence By Brad Rostolsky Catherine David Whitney Petrie According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, firearm injuries are a serious public health problem in the United States....