Washington Governor Jay Inslee has signed the My Health, My Data Act into law.
Here are some key takeaways.
Approach to privacy: The people of Washington regard their privacy as
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For deidentification under the traditional laws like HIPAA, removal of identifiers qualifies.
That was a key facet of what I discussed last week on an anonymization panel during the IAPP
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Let’s review:
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 may be the most well-known privacy law in the United States, but it is also one of the most misunderstood.
Many
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Hey hospitals, retirement homes and clinics! If you are using biometrics to control medication dispensing systems, then Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act then (BIPA) has news for you.
California lawmakers recently passed legislation that amends the California Consumer Privacy Act.
“The most significant outcome of AB 713’s passage is that, pending California Gov. Gavin Newson’s signature, information that
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On the sixth day of CCPA the California Senate Health Committee gave to me … a HIPAA carve-out.
AB 713, reported favorably by the California Senate Health Committee, would expand
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A study shows that “92 percent of 36 mental health apps shared data with at least one third party — mostly services that help with marketing, advertising, or data analytics.”
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Last week we posted about A Brief Primer on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Our partner and HIPAA/HITECH expert Elizabeth Litten took the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and created a blog post for the HIPAA, HITECH and Health Information Technology Blog on how How the NIST Cybersecurity Framework Can Help With HIPAA Compliance: 3 Tips. For those facing any HIPAA-related issues, it is a worthwhile read.
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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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