New York is the latest state to introduce its own health privacy law, the NY Health Information Privacy Act (NYHIPA), signaling a growing trend of state-level regulations extending beyond HIPAA. If enacted, NYHIPA will impose strict requirements on how businesses—both inside and outside the healthcare industry—collect, process, and share consumer health data, making compliance a priority for many organizations.
Read MoreFor nearly two years, digital healthcare companies and data brokers from across the country have been preparing to comply with California’s newest data privacy law—the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). Companies are making determinations about the applicability of this law to their operations, developing inventories of the types of consumer information they collect, and implementing operational and procedural changes in order to comply with the requirements of the law’s requirements. For those companies whose operations are not subject to the CCPA law, some have determined that it may be a strategic advantage to voluntarily adhere to some of the CCPA’s requirements, as they are likely to be adopted by other states (and even the Federal Government) as privacy legislation continues to proliferate. If you are a digital healthcare company or healthcare data broker and you’ve not initiated these conversations within your company, now is the time.
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