2/13/2025 3:09:38 PM California AG Explains How Laws May Apply to AI in Healthcare By Wendell Bartnick Vicki Tankle The California Attorney General’s Office (AG) unsurprisingly takes an expansive view of how the development, sale, and use of artificial...
1/31/2025 4:34:59 AM HHS Recent Guidance on AI Use in Health Care By Wendell Bartnick Vanessa Perumal Garrison Ambrose The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), through its Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”), recently issued a “Dear Colleague”...
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...
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...
6/21/2023 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...
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...
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...
7/6/2022 3:27:29 AM Unanswered Questions on Privacy and Employment from Supreme Court Overturn of Roe v. Wade By Matthew Loughran As the health care industry as a whole comes to grips with the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in...
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...
3/11/2021 10:02:10 PM Congress considers the future of telehealth in the wake of COVID-19 By Alexandra Hussey It is no secret that the coronavirus pandemic has driven our daily lives digital—work, education, social gatherings, and, of course,...
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...