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Minnesota appellate court provides guidance regarding HIPAA preemption; internet publication as "publicity" for invasion of privacy tort claims

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

On June 23, the Minnesota Court of Appeals, the state's intermediate appellate court, provided two significant privacy-related rulings in Yath v. Fairview Clinics

White House forms new subcommittee to review online privacy issues

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 28 2010

In a statement released October 24 , the Obama Administration launched a new interagency "subcommittee" of the National Science and Technology Council to review privacy and Internet policy, which may include review of healthcare privacy issues

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 17 2011

On January 7, 2011, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that is likely to have a significant impact on the regulation of online privacy

Cloud computing and the laboratory

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Sweden
  • -
  • May 3 2011

InSweden, electronic documentation and management systems are today more or less mainstay in the modern infrastructure within the Life Science sector (the notion life science used here in its broadest meaning, including the food & beverage and chemical sector

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) developments

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 29 2010

On November 23, 2010, a coalition of consumer advocacy groups consisting of the Center for Digital Democracy, U.S. PIRG, Consumer Watchdog, and the World Privacy Forum filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission requesting an investigation and public accounting of how pharmaceutical and online health services gather and use consumer data

AMA adopts policy on "professionalism in the use of social media"

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 29 2010

The American Medical Association recently published a policy on "Professionalism in the Use of Social Media," in an apparent attempt to address growing concerns about patient confidentiality and privacy in various internet settings

Pharmaceutical companies face impact of Facebook policy change

  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 23 2011

Creating potential liability for pharmaceutical companies wary of Food and Drug Administration regulations, Facebook recently changed its policy to state that it will no longer allow the makers of new pharmaceutical product pages to disable the comments feature

Consumer privacy groups ask FTC to cure their medical privacy concerns

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 6 2010

Once again, consumers are seeking to define the blurred line that lies between personal and private information in the digital age

Congressional update - second session of the 112th Congress begins

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 31 2012

After a month-long recess, the House of Representatives returned to session last week (the Senate returns today

Small cardiology practice to pay $100,000 to settle allegations of HIPAA violations

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 20 2012

On April 17, 2012, the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement and corrective action plan with Phoenix Cardiac Surgery, P.C. (Phoenix), a small cardiology practice based in Phoenix and Prescott, Arizona

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