Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I were recently featured again by our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch in her article in the April 2017 issue of Medical Practice Compliance Alert
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When HIPAA Applies to Patient Assistance Programs (and When it Doesn’t), Part 2
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I posed a question in Part 1 of this post which I will summarize here: is personal health information provided to a Patient Assistance Program (PAP) in order to help…
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Protecting Health Information in the Context of Divorce Proceedings and Domestic Relations – Part III
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(Part III continues Part I and Part II of this series on privacy of health information in the domestic relations context, which may be found here and here. Capitalized…
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Basic HIPAA Question for Mobile Health Application Developers: What Are You?
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Health-related technology has developed light-years faster than health information privacy and security protection laws and policies, and consumers can find new mobile health applications for a wide range of purposes…
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HIPAA Compliance Trends for 2015
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As she had done in 2014, Marla Durben Hirsch interviewed my partner Elizabeth Litten and me for her annual Medical Practice Compliance Alert article on compliance trends for the …
Connecticut Supreme Court Recognizes Individual’s Right for State Tort Action Using HIPAA as Standard of Care
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The Connecticut Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case of Byrne v. Avery Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, P.C., — A.3d —-, 2014 WL 5507439 (2014) that
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Patient Support Groups, Email and the Duty to Warn
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I was recently asked whether the sending of an unencrypted group email to participants in a health-related support group violated HIPAA. Faithful blog readers can guess my first question: “Was…
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Which Privacy Protections Apply? HIPAA, FERPA and Ebola
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Recent news articles regarding a New Jersey elementary school’s handling of the enrollment of two new students from Rwanda provided another glimpse of Ebola hysteria and the opportunity for me…
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Countdown to September 22nd — Shortcuts for Business Associate Agreement Compliance
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The deadline for executing a HIPAA Omnibus Rule-compliant Business Associate Agreement (BAA) looms just 2 short weeks from today. What can a busy covered entity (CE) or business associate (BA)…
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The Parade of Major Reported PHI Breaches Surges to 885 – Theft and Loss Dominate the Numbers
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The number of large breaches of Protected Health Information (PHI) under HIPAA that have been reported on the so-called “Wall of Shame” (the HHS List) maintained by the U.S. Department …
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