A tricky issue for mobile health app developers since the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released its first “Health App Use Scenarios & HIPAA” guidance back in 2016 has been
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Updated OCR Guidance on Contacting Recovered COVID-19 Patients
The Office for Civil Rights within the Department of Health and Human Services (OCR) provided guidance in June that reassured covered entity health care providers and that it is generally…
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Employer Collection of COVID-19 Data and Employee Privacy
The following post is adapted from an article written by Fox Rothschild attorneys Wayne Pinksone and Lucy Li, available here.
OSHA recently published guidance for “nonessential businesses” that are…
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Dos and Don’ts from OCR’s Guidance and FAQs on Telehealth and HIPAA
On March 20, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published Guidance and a list of FAQs related to the provision of telehealth…
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COVID-19 Update: Limited Waiver of HIPAA Sanctions and Penalties for Certain Hospitals
Effective March 15, 2020, certain hospitals that fail to comply with specific HIPAA Privacy Rule requirements will not be subject to HIPAA sanctions and penalties, according to a “COVID-19 …
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HIPAA and COVID-19: ABCs For Working From Home
If your company is a covered entity or a business associate, you face unique challenges when workforce members ask or are required to work from home. Hopefully, your company’s HIPAA…
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More for Employers re: HIPAA Privacy and COVID-19
The FAQs included in my prior post address employer response with an eye to HIPAA compliance. What else can an employer do or not do with employee information related to…
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FAQs on HIPAA Privacy and COVID-19
Fox Rothschild partner Bill Maruca’s article, “Protecting Privacy During an Infectious Disease Panic”, is (unfortunately) as relevant today as it was when it was posted here more than 5 years…
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Does the HIPAA Concept of De-identification Serve to Adequately Protect the Privacy of all Personal Health Information?
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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Foreshadowing HIPAA Trends for 2020
As she has done for a number of years now, our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch highlighted Fox Rothschild (Fox) lawyers in her annual predictions articles in the January 2020…
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