Mending (Geo)fencing Concerns

By Charles C. Harris & Sara Helene Shanti on May 29, 2019

Although not a new practice, the application of geofencing continues to increase in sophistication and expand into personal space on an unprecedented scale, jumping beyond commercial retail advertising schemes and diving into the depths of employment, health care, law enforcement, and politics. As the growth of these applications prompt privacy and security concerns, including government surveillance concerns, regulations lag and may be further delayed considering lawmakers’ very use of geofencing to win a governing seat.…

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HIPAA in Due Diligence (Part III): Risk Mitigation Strategies

By Kate Waters Hardey, Sara Helene Shanti & Timothy R. Loveland on April 4, 2018

Health Information Highlight Welcome back to our three-part series examining ways to efficiently identify, address and mitigate gaps in HIPAA compliance in transaction diligence. In Part I, we discussed four key diligence questions upon which buyers should focus their efforts in a transaction. In Part II, we reviewed considerations related to storage of and access to diligence materials, particularly in the context of using a data room or other cloud-based server. Here, we address potential…

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HIPAA in Due Diligence (Part II): Cloud Server Data and HIPAA Compliance

By Kate Waters Hardey, Sara Helene Shanti & Timothy R. Loveland on April 2, 2018

Health Information Highlight Welcome back to our three-part series examining ways to efficiently identify, address and mitigate gaps in HIPAA compliance in transaction diligence. In Part I of this series, we discussed four key diligence questions upon which buyers should focus their efforts in a transaction. Here, we review considerations related to storage of and access to diligence materials, particularly in the context of using a data room or other cloud-based server. For an…

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HIPAA in Due Diligence (Part I): Four Key Diligence Questions

By Kate Waters Hardey, Sara Helene Shanti & Timothy R. Loveland on March 30, 2018

Health Information Highlight Welcome to a three-part series that will examine several ways to efficiently identify, address, and mitigate gaps in HIPAA compliance in transaction diligence. A target’s value is often held in its information and people. An increased risk of HIPAA enforcement means that privacy and security diligence should not be a “check the box” activity. Buyers should fully understand the scope of potential risk in the early stages of transaction diligence, take steps…

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HIPAA Breach Reporting: 2017 Trends and Mends

By Catherine Hess, Sara Helene Shanti & Chris DeGrande on January 18, 2018

With 2017 having drawn to a close, it is once again time for HIPAA covered entities to complete their annual breach reporting obligations to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”). Whereas covered entities must report breaches involving 500 or more individuals no later than 60 calendar days from the discovery date, for breaches affecting less than 500 individuals, entities have the option of submitting the year’s incident notifications…

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Big Brother is a Pill: Digital Tracking Drugs

By Sara Helene Shanti & Chris DeGrande on January 11, 2018

Drug adherence programs have significantly evolved over the last few years with drug companies, health plans, and providers taking steps to monitor patient medication compliance. Drug adherence is the degree to which a patient complies with medication administration advice for treatment of chronic disease. Beyond the obvious benefits to patients’ health and health entities’ bottom lines, drug adherence can have a large effect on public health and social communities. Therefore, although it is no surprise…

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Mending (Geo)fencing Concerns

HIPAA in Due Diligence (Part III): Risk Mitigation Strategies

HIPAA in Due Diligence (Part II): Cloud Server Data and HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA in Due Diligence (Part I): Four Key Diligence Questions

HIPAA Breach Reporting: 2017 Trends and Mends

Big Brother is a Pill: Digital Tracking Drugs

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