
Fox Rothschild’s Minneapolis Privacy Summit on November 8 will explore key cybersecurity issues and compliance questions facing company decision-makers.
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Monitoring Legal Developments Relating to the Privacy and Security of Health Information
Fox Rothschild’s Minneapolis Privacy Summit on November 8 will explore key cybersecurity issues and compliance questions facing company decision-makers.
Continue Reading Join Top Cybersecurity Pros at Fox’s Privacy Summit
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25, 2018. Whereas HIPAA applies to particular types or classes of data creators, recipients, maintainers or transmitters…
Continue Reading When HIPAA Compliance Is Not Enough: The Territorial Scope of GDPR
In 1973, President Richard Nixon’s Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman warned White House Counsel John Dean against talking to prosecutors investigating the growing Watergate scandal, telling him “Once the …
Continue Reading When Data is Like Toothpaste
Many employers who have had it drilled into them that HIPAA applies to protected health information (PHI) of employees are often surprised to learn that the applicability of HIPAA to…
Continue Reading Not So Fast! HIPAA (Surprisingly) Doesn’t Apply to THAT!
In a post on February 28, Fox associate Kristen Marotta discussed the privacy and security issues arising from the growing use of telemedicine, particularly for mental health treatment. Now…
Continue Reading A Movement to Consider: Telepsychiatry in New York State
Kristen Marotta writes:
Many believe that educated millennials are choosing to work in urban, rather than rural areas, during their early career due to societal milestones being steadily pushed…
Continue Reading Perks and Tips for the Recent Medical Graduate: Telemedicine and HIPAA
Many employers who offer wellness programs to their employees may not have considered compliance with HIPAA privacy, security and breach notification rules (collectively, “HIPAA Rules”), since they don’t think of…
Continue Reading Beware: HIPAA Applies to the Health Plans You Never Knew You Had (Part 2: Wellness Programs)
You may be surprised to learn that those “extra” benefits your company offers to its employees such as your employee assistance program (“EAP”) and wellness program likely are subject to…
Continue Reading Beware: HIPAA Applies to the Health Plans You Never Knew You Had (Part 1: Employee Assistance Programs)
Text messaging is a convenient way for busy doctors to communicate, but for years, the question has remained: are doctors allowed to convey sensitive health information with other members of…
Continue Reading The President Can Tweet, But Can a Doctor Text?
In our most recent post, the Top 5 Common HIPAA Mistakes to Avoid in 2018, we noted that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil…
Continue Reading New HIPAA Guidance on Disclosure of PHI Related to Opioid Abuse and Mental Health