From WilmerHale: In this article published by the Seton Hall Law Review (Vol. 51: Iss. 5, Article 5), Kirk Nahra discusses the history of privacy law, the current privacy structure, and what to expect for the future. Excerpt: Modern United States privacy law is roughly twenty years old. Even though still in its relative infancy, privacy law is…
Category: Laws
50-State Survey of Health Care Information Privacy Laws
Seyfarth Shaw LLP has made a resource freely available: Seyfarth is pleased to provide you with our 50-State Survey of Health Care Information Privacy Laws. The world continues to struggle with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and pressures mount on health care organizations to properly share personal health information. While resources abound on how federal…
Health Data Sharing With Social Services Raises Privacy Concerns
Christopher Brown reports: Proposed changes to federal health privacy rules intended to encourage information sharing with social services agencies could pose unacceptable privacy risks, provider groups and privacy advocates say. The goal of the changes to the HIPAA privacy rule (RIN 0945–AA00) is to encourage health-care providers and social services agencies to work together to address social…
Proposed Bill Would Expand the Scope of the CMIA
Libbie Canter, Rebecca Yergin & Olivia Vega of Covington & Burling write: Legislation that would amend California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (“CMIA”) is working its way through California’s Senate and passed in the Senate Health Committee earlier this week. The proposed bill passed in the state’s Assembly back in April. Introduced by Democratic California…