It's not only federal HIPAA privacy and security violations that may end up costing industry groups a pretty penny. There's also state privacy laws to heed. Case in point: Stanford Medicine, which as ...

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will begin giving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) access to personal Medicaid records, a decision that has ignited outrage from experts who ...

When Jennifer Hughes’ son was in a mountain biking accident last year, she was prepared to go into full “mama bear” mode, overseeing his medical care and insurance details. But the Chicago-area mom ...

Finnegan’s Lynn Parker Dupree and Baker McKenzie’s Lothar Determann discuss a wave of new state laws regarding brainwaves tracked by wearable devices, or data derived from the activity of a person’s ...

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More states are passing laws to protect information generated by a person's brain and nervous system as technology improves the ability to unlock the sensitive details of a person's health, mental ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Margaret Riley, University of Virginia (THE CONVERSATION) On Sept. 10, 2025, a federal ...