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Joint Guidance Confirms the Sharing of Health Information Subject to FTC Regulations, Not Only HIPAA
Logan Parker Privacy Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, LL.M. in Health Law 2017 On October 22, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in collaboration and conjunction with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) released new guidance on key privacy and security considerations for organizations handling health …
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FTC Final Order against LabMD – The Intersection of Unfair Practices, Privacy, Security, and Compliance
Logan Parker Privacy Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, LL.M. in Health Law 2017 The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued an Opinion and Final Order on July 29, 2016 against LabMD, a now defunct medical testing laboratory, for its lax data security practices that constituted an unfair practice under Section 5 of the …
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