Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP | USA | 17 Apr 2023
In February, when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) delivered two annual reports to Congress for…
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP | USA | 2 Sep 2022
On August 30, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana granted a software company Defendant’s motion to dismiss, ruling that a…
Epstein Becker Green | USA | 8 Apr 2022
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently submitted two reports to Congress setting forth the HIPAA…
Troutman Pepper | USA | 24 Feb 2020
In July 2019, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act), which amended New…
Akerman LLP | USA | 4 Feb 2020
On January 28, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a notice (the OCR Notice) regarding…
Morrison & Foerster LLP | USA | 29 Jul 2019
New York is the latest state to expand its breach notification law with the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act, signed into…
Phillips Lytle LLP | USA | 1 Jul 2019
In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, imposed direct liability on business associates for certain…
Crowell & Moring LLP | USA | 15 May 2019
The HHS Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) closed out the month of April with some updates to HIPAA civil monetary penalty (“CMP”) limits and…
Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP | USA | 24 Apr 2019
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted in 1996, when healthcare providers and payers were still using…
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP | USA | 19 Apr 2019
On March 4, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a wide-ranging proposed rule (“Proposed Rule”)[1] with the intent to…