7/8/2025 2:37:52 AM HHS Announces Policy on Criminal Referrals for Regulatory Violations By Rebecca Jones McKnight Nancy Halstead Matthew Loughran The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a new general policy on what factors the agency will take into...
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...
7/20/2021 4:06:03 PM Expansive enforcement of HIPAA Right of Access continues By Catherine David Christina Bowen Starting in 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) has taken an increased interest in...
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...
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...