The U.S. Department of Education and the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released updated joint guidance today addressing the application of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule to records maintained on students….
Category: Healthcare
Medical Prescription Warrantless Searches Get New Challenge
Sara Merken reports: Medical prescription records should be shielded from warrantless searches by federal agents cracking down on illegal use of opioids and other narcotics, New Hampshire officials are arguing in a First Circuit case. The case is the first to test whether the Supreme Court’s decision last year in a cellphone privacy case, Carpenter v….
California’s landmark privacy law will have ‘subtle’ effect on hospitals
Jessica Kim Cohen reports that CCPA’s impact on hospitals is not totally clear at this point, and some hospitals will be exempt because they are not-for-profit. Here’s a snippet from her report: Only large, investor-owned hospitals will fall under its purview, according to Lois Richardson, the California Hospital Association’s vice president and legal counsel. But…
Healthcare in the AI Crosshairs
Adam H. Greene and Lyra Correa of Davis Wright Tremaine write: News broke last month that Google partnered with the second-largest health system in the U.S., Ascension Healthcare, to collect and analyze the health information of millions of patients in a program code-named “Project Nightingale.” Under Project Nightingale, Ascension transfers its patients’ health information, including…