On July 20, 2023, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a joint letter to 130 entities, including hospital systems and telehealth providers, which highlighted the [...]
On April 12, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) to strengthen the federal privacy protections for reproductive health records. The NPRM seeks to address [...]
On February 17, 2023, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released its Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information for Calendar Year 2021 (“HIPAA Breach Report”) and [...]
As of October 6, 2022, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC)’s Cures Act Final Rule (known as the Info Blocking Rule) applies to all electronic health information (EHI). Prior to October [...]
The covered entities involved in the two most recent HIPAA settlements could not be more different: A small federally qualified health center (with approximately 43 employees and serving approximately 3,100 patients per [...]
The new privacy regulations took effect on August 1, 2017, so this week we’re focused on privacy here at FTLF! We’ve collected and curated some resources on child privacy. Happy reading! Family Policy [...]
This is the third installment of our four-part blog series addressing the privacy related provisions in the new Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS). Part 1 privded an overview of the new regulations and Part [...]
This is the second installment of our four-part blog series addressing the privacy related provisions in the new Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS). If you missed Part 1 of the series, check [...]
In the Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007, Congress required the Office of Head Start to implement regulations to protect the confidentiality of personally identifiable information (“PII”). Nearly ten years [...]
