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Health care privacy legislation advancing quicklycompanies can expect significant changes to the privacy landscape

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 3 2009

The Obama Administration's broad-reaching economic stimulus legislation includes an extensive series of new proposals to expand the reach of electronic health records

New health care breach notification rules issued

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 9 2009

With two important new security breach notification rules issued in recent days, the health care industry and its business partners now face an entirely new federal environment for disclosure of security breaches

Update on Health IT efforts under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 4 2009

For health care providers, technology developers, and medical insurers, the standards under which Health Information Technology (Health IT) will function will spell cost recovery, profit, or unreimbursed expense

Security risks from insiders

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 5 2009

Two recent incidents demonstrate dramatically and publicly one of the biggest security risks facing the health care industry and others across corporate Americathe risk of insider misuse of data access

“New HIPAA” poses important challenges for business associates

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 1 2009

The new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy and security requirements, imposed by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act) will have a significant impact on the privacy and security of health care information and on the compliance obligations for affected health care companies

New regulation increases HIPAA enforcement exposure

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 13 2009

On October 30, 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published an interim final rule amending the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Enforcement Regulation (45 CFR Part 160), to implement the statutory changes related to civil penalties required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act

Health care privacy in 2010

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 18 2010

A lot is happening in the health care world, with the implications of health care reform leading the list

HHS issues proposed Health IT regulations - comments due March 15, 2010

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 17 2010

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Servies (HHS) is seeking public comment on two sets of rules that are designed to modernize and improve the delivery of health care services through the use of Health Information Technology (Health IT) pursuant to the mandates in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA

What's important about the HITECH NPRM?

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 6 2010

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released its long-anticipated Notice of Proposed Rulemarking (NPRM) for the privacy and security provisions of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act

FTC Red Flags Rule compliance now required

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 5 2011

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) allowed the December 31, 2010 compliance deadline set last May to go into effect