Healthcare providers are increasingly deploying artificial intelligence (AI) tools for diagnostics, documentation and operational efficiency. In fact, over the last few months, large AI platforms are now marketing AI-enabled tools directly to healthcare providers. Providers must navigate a
Earlier this year, the Attorneys General of Massachusetts and Connecticut entered into settlement agreements with Comstar, LLC, an ambulance billing firm, relating to alleged HIPAA regulation violations in connection with a ransomware incident. Comstar is a business associate under HIPAA
On October 2, 2024, the New York State Department of Health (DOH) published a new cybersecurity regulation (10 NYCRR 405.46) for all general hospitals licensed pursuant to article 28 of the Public Health Law. Although most of the regulation will
On March 18, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an updated, 17-page Bulletin titled “Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates (the Bulletin). Our readers may recall that HHS had
On July 20, 2023 HHS and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a joint letter to approximately 130 companies regarding their online data collection processes. The letter follows the much discussed December 1, 2022, Bulletin that expanded the kinds of
HHS: Online trackers without prior authorization and BAAs can violate HIPAA
By Steve Roosa, Sue Ross, Dan Rosenzweig
On the evening of December 1, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a 12-page Bulletin titled “
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) plans to issue an advance notice of proposed rulemaking this November on potentially sharing HIPAA breach settlements with victims.
On April 16, 2018, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled Version 1.1 of its widely known Cybersecurity Framework, which incorporates changes based on feedback collected through comments, questions, and workshops held in 2016 and 2017.
On March 16, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued its decision on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) omnibus order of 2015, relating to challenges to four of the FCC’s determinations relating to cell phones. The appellate court upheld the FCC’s determinations that consumers can revoke consent to receive marketing calls by “any reasonable means” that clearly expresses the desire to receive no further messages from the caller, and an exception for certain “emergency” healthcare-related calls. On the other hand, the court set aside the FCC’s decision regarding the definition of an “automatic telephone dialing system” (ATDS), and how callers can deal with reassigned numbers where the previous owner had consented to receive marketing calls.