Best Practice on Data Privacy
Most organizations would agree that data privacy must be treated as a priority issue, not least because of the financial and reputational consequences of a data breach. Squire Patton Boggs has a...
View ArticleFlorida’s New Data Breach Notification Law Shortens the Time Period for...
Florida enacted a new data breach reporting law, the Florida Information Protection Act (“FIPA”), which will affect most, if not all, healthcare businesses. The law became effective the first of this...
View ArticleAnthem Data Breach: A Dramatic Reminder about Data Security
News of the data breach suffered by Anthem continues to dominate the news (here, here, and here for example). And, further raising the stakes, class action lawsuits from individuals whose information...
View ArticleThinking About Cybersecurity – How to Get Organized & Better Manage Risk
Another month, another round of data breaches – seem like a familiar refrain when healthcare providers, health plans and their counsel think about cybersecurity? But what if instead we could get...
View ArticleMalicious Malware Brings On a Major HIPAA Headache
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently entered into a $750,000 resolution agreement with the University of Washington (UW) following an investigation. The...
View ArticleRansomware Scandals Rock Hospital Systems; HHS’ Proposed Rule May Help
Hospital systems are on notice for ransomware attacking their health IT systems after three hospital systems are reported to be victims of computer viruses. In response, one hospital system paid...
View ArticleHHS Announces $400,000 HIPAA Settlement with Community Health Center
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (HHS OCR) recently settled with a notable covered entity – a nonprofit Federally Qualified Community Health Center (FQHC) – over...
View ArticleHHS Task Force Identifies Critical Cybersecurity Recommendations
The recent WannaCry ransomware attack and the bevy of breaches over the past few years demonstrate that cyber risks in the healthcare arena are substantial and widespread. The Department of Health and...
View ArticleHHS OCR Issues New Research Guidance
As part of its ongoing implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act (Public Law 114-255), the Department of Health and Human Services last month released a number of new HIPAA guidance tools, including...
View ArticleClik here to view.
EU’s proposed eHealth measures focusing on broadening the availability and...
On 25 April 2018, the European Commission (EC) issued a Communication on enabling the digital transformation of healthcare, outlining the European Union’s (EU) priorities and actions towards digital...
View ArticleKey Health Care Technology Privacy and Cybersecurity Considerations
In a podcast interview with Healthcare InfoSecurity, Squire Patton Boggs Partner Elliot Golding addresses evolving healthcare privacy and security issues, particularly complex issues involving Internet...
View ArticleNew EU Strategy on Artificial Intelligence
On Wednesday 25 April, the EU Commission unveiled a new strategy to boost Europe’s capabilities and related industries around artificial intelligence. As you know, this is a “hot topic” that has the...
View ArticleLaw360 Expert Analysis: Health Tech Is The New Focus For Cybersecurity Policy
In a May 22, 2018 article that appeared in Law360 Expert Analysis piece, Squire Patton Boggs partner Elliot Golding writes, “There is no shortage of attention on health care data privacy and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How To Avoid Paying $2,000 A Day To Encrypt ePHI
Let’s hope you don’t pay that much to encrypt electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI). How about a total of $4.3 million over two years? Well, that’s the total penalty for encryption violations...
View ArticleDigital Health Update: Recent FDA Cyber Initiatives
The Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has greatly increased its activity around cybersecurity initiatives and medical devices. As we approach the end of the year, this is a great opportunity to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Medical Imaging Company Pays $3 Million Data Security Fine
A medical imaging company is paying for its flawed data security system. In addition to its system failures, the company failed to investigate and respond properly when alerted to problems by the FBI....
View ArticleThe Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”): When Will Companies...
The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) went into effect in 2008 and has been a steady source of litigation ever since. BIPA regulates how “private entities” collect, use and share...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Keep Your Data Breach Report Privileged
Capital One has been ordered to disclose its cybersecurity report about a data breach. We provide tips on how to keep such reports under protection of the attorney client privilege in our post here...
View ArticleWebinar: Got Data?: How the Health Data Rules are Changing
On June 1, an SPB Partner and other industry experts will co-present on the ABA Webinar: Got Data?: How the Health Data Rules are Changing. The program, organized by the American Bar Association (ABA)...
View ArticleHealthcare Research: A Transatlantic and Trans-European Dialogue Seminar
On November 23rd, a Squire Patton Boggs partner will lead a panel of industry thought leaders in a discussion of transcontinental health research and data issues. Topics to be explored include: What...
View Article
