Shifting Privacy Laws and Health Data: An Overview
From new federal Department of Health and Human Services rules to recently-enacted state laws, privacy mandates are imposing a shifting set of requirements on companies that collect and process healthcare data. And the development of data-driven tools to target COVID-19 and mitigate its spread has intensified the spotlight on the nexus between how traditional healthcare companies are regulated versus the activities of tech-driven firms outside the “HIPAA umbrella.”
This presentation will cover three main topics: 1) the state of federal privacy laws and their relationship to healthcare data; 2) state level privacy activities (California, mostly); and 3) federal proposals and congressional activity.
Some key takeaways will be:
Speaker: Graham Dufault, Senior Director for Public Policy
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