Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I were once again quoted by our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch in her recent articles in Medical Practice Compliance Alert entitled “Misapplication of Internet
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Hackers: Take My Health Information, But Please Don’t Take My Health
We know by now that protected health information (PHI) and other personal information is vulnerable to hackers. Last week, the Washington Times reported that the Department of Health and Human…
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Providers: Beware of HIPAA and Patient Privacy Rules During Employment Disputes
Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I were once again quoted by our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch in her recent article in Medical Practice Compliance Alert entitled “Beware of HIPAA,…
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Doctor is Arrested for Allegedly Stealing Thousands of Patient Records
Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I were quoted by our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch in her recent article in Medical Practice Compliance Alert entitled “Doctor is Arrested for Stealing…
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When HIPAA Applies to Patient Assistance Programs (and When it Doesn’t), Part 2
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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When HIPAA Applies to Patient Assistance Programs (and When It Doesn’t)
Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs) have proliferated in recent years, despite the fact that many commonly-prescribed medications have lost patent protection and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has attempted to eliminate…
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Protecting Health Information in the Context of Divorce Proceedings and Domestic Relations – Part III
(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?
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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Not All Sensitive Health Information is Protected Health Information Under HIPAA
Recently our partner Keith R. McMurdy posted an entry on the Fox Rothschild Employee Benefits Legal Blog entitled “HIPAA Medical Privacy Matters: Court Permits ADA Claim to Proceed.” While the…
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New NJ Standard More Stringent than HIPAA
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill (S.562) into law on January 9, 2015 that will impose a standard more stringent than HIPAA on health insurance carriers authorized (i.e.,…
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