Maine appears poised to join the nineteen (19) states that have enacted comprehensive data privacy legislation as its legislature...

The recently announced proposed updates to the HIPAA Security Rule have garnered a lot of attention in the industry with many comparing...

The Privacy Rule grants an individual certain rights, including the right to request a restriction on certain disclosures of their...

In 2014, the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips ("Manatt") published a paper funded by the California HealthCare Foundation that...

One common theme among Europe's General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") and the nineteen state comprehensive data privacy laws is...

"HIPAA compliant." Spend any amount of time in data privacy in the healthcare industry and you are bound to hear a potential vendor use...

As the use of artificial intelligence ("AI") in healthcare grows, it's important for the health care providers who deploy AI and the...

The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services ("HHS") announced its first enforcement action since the new Administration took office. The...

Generally no. The purpose of the business associate provision is to allow covered entities to use business associates to support the...

A "business associate" is one of the two types of entities regulated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996...