Watch out HHS, the FTC is taking the lead in enforcing privacy violations by companies also subject to HIPAA. BetterHelp, an on-line mental health platform, engaged in unfair and unreasonable
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HIPAA or Not, Health Apps Must Provide Breach Notification
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The Federal Trade Commission seems to be getting serious about unauthorized disclosures of data collected by health apps. In a Policy Statement issued on September 15, 2021, the FTC says…
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FTC Offers Tips for Data Protection in Products Related to Fighting COVID-19
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From Fox Rothschild’s Privacy Compliance & Data Security blog
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has offered tips for data protection during the COVID-19 crisis.
- Consider privacy and security as you’re
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Equifax Breach Checker – Curiosity May Have a Cost (But it’s Refundable)
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Individuals who have received notice of a HIPAA breach are often offered free credit monitoring services for some period of time, particularly if the protected health information involved included social…
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Where’s Your Wallet? The Ongoing Saga of FTC v. LabMD (Part 2 of 2)
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It was the wallet comment in the response brief filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit that prompted me…
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Will the New Administration Trump Efforts to Forecast 2017 Healthcare Trends?
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As she has done in January for several years, our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch quoted my partner Elizabeth Litten and me in Medical Practice Compliance Alert in her article…
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From the Wild West to Westworld and (Maybe) Back to Normal – the Ongoing Saga of LabMD (Part 1 of 2)
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It was nearly three years ago that I first blogged about the Federal Trade Commission’s “Wild West” data breach enforcement action brought against now-defunct medical testing company LabMD. Back then,…
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Six Tips for Providers to Reduce the Risk of Obtaining Unreliable HIPAA Compliance and Protection Software
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Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I had a recent conversation with our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch who quoted us in her Medical Practice Compliance Alert article, “Beware False Promises…
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Election Year Predictions: Expansion of Federal Healthcare Privacy Regulation
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Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I were quoted by our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch in her article in Medical Practice Compliance Alert entitled “6 Compliance Trends Likely to Affect…
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Chief Administrative Law Judge Refuses to Swallow FTC’s Section 5 Interpretation in LabMD Ruling
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Already many blogs and articles have been written on Chief Administrative Law Judge D. Michael Chappell’s November 13, 2015 92-page decision exonerating LabMD from the FTC’s charges that it failed…
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