In recent years, the FTC has increasingly focused on protecting consumers’ access to healthcare, through both its competition and its consumer protection missions. Similarly, the FTC has become a force in federal privacy regulation, second only to the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services. On occasion, the FTC’s priorities in access to health care and health information privacy have come together,… More
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MaHIMA Webinar – Release of Information: Rate Rules
Click here to download the presentation slides from a recent MaHIMA Webinar on the Massachusetts rate rule for hospitals and clinics.
Law360: “HHS Data-Scrubbing Guidance Backs Strict Privacy Definitions”
Today’s Law360 addresses “HHS Data-Scrubbing Guidance” with quotes from me and others on the subject:
Clarifying the types of data that need to be removed from data sets can also help companies maximize the value of the information that they hold as the value of and ability to use this data for research and public health purposes increases, Foley Hoag LLP security and privacy practice co-chair Colin Zick added.… More
Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Decision Striking Down Vermont Pharmaceutical “Data Mining” Law
As promised in our earlier entry, here is our detailed discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Sorrell v IMS Health, Inc.,written by Colin J. Zick, Pat A. Cerundolo, Tad Heuer
On Thursday, June 23, the United States Supreme Court voted 6-3 to strike down a Vermont statute that sought to impose significant restrictions on pharmaceutical detailing and “data mining”… More