Regulators, industry experts, and researchers provided insight into health privacy and security enforcement trends, emerging threats, and new tools at a recent conference focused on HIPAA. Moving into 2020, organizations with health data should be aware of: Shifting OCR enforcement priorities, regulators’ continued attention to key HIPAA compliance activities, the changing threat landscape for health data, and new guidance and frameworks for health data not regulated by HIPAA.
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Recap of the OCR/NIST Conference on Safeguarding Health Information
Regulators provided key insights into enforcement trends and potential changes to HIPAA regulations at the 11th Annual “Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance Through HIPAA Security” conference in October co-hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
Hogan Lovells Article in Inside Counsel Magazine: “The Risks of Neglecting Privacy”
Hogan Lovells privacy leader Chris Wolf has authored an article in Inside Counsel magazine, a journal providing insights for law department leaders. The piece is entitled “The Risks of Neglecting Privacy” and explains how privacy concerns likely will result in a stricter legal and regulatory framework, meaning that companies should act now to bolster consumer protection. This blog entry contains excerpts from and a link to the full article.