Today the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) finalized rules published in December of 2022 changing the requirements for handling SUD patient information governed by 45 CFR part
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Does the HIPAA Concept of De-identification Serve to Adequately Protect the Privacy of all Personal Health Information?
By Elizabeth G. Litten on
Fellow Fox Rothschild LLP Partner (and former hospital system General Counsel) Salvatore J. Russo generously contributed this post.
Some twenty-three years ago, the first well-publicized incident of the re-identification of…
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