Tag Archives: Vermont

In the past few months, data privacy and security laws in Connecticut, Hawaii and Vermont have been updated, without much fanfare. Although these are not revolutionary changes, they are material and they raise the compliance bar.

This webinar will review the details of these legislative updates and spell out what they may mean for your organization. The program will include before and after comparisons of language, in order to highlight what firms will need to do differently under the new rules.… More

You may have missed it, because it came without fanfare and does not seem to have made the data security trade press, but in early May, the State of Vermont updated its data security law. In particular, these revisions to 9 V.S.A. chapter 62 do the following:

1. change the information protected to “personally identifiable information” (it was formerly “personal information”);
2. exclude from the definition of “security breach” …

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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

The Supreme Court this morning voted 6-3 to strike down a Vermont statute that sought to impose significant restrictions on pharmaceutical data mining activities. Justice Kennedy’s opinion in the closely-watched case of IMS v. Sorrell held that the Vermont statute was an unconstitutional regulation of commercial speech.

The first paragraph of Justice Kennedy’s opinion provides a brief summary of the posture of the case and of the Court’s decision:

Vermont law restricts the sale,… More

I give my perspective on issues of physician privacy in this video from The HealthCare Channel, including:

• Can physicians challenge online review sites such as Health Grades or Vitals.com to have critical patient comments removed?
• The Supreme Court will rule soon on the case against the State of Vermont and the law banning the sale of prescription data to companies for use in marketing to those physicians.  …

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