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Pending Federal Privacy Legislation: A Status Update

By DEVEN McGRAW and VINCE KURAITIS

This post is part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy? Sharing? Both?”

Read the full post on The Health Care Blog.

A few excerpts:

The buzz around federal privacy legislation continues, but as of yet there appear to be no proposals or bills that have emerged as the lead bills. 

Despite the perceived lack of movement of current bills, the ticking clock on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) suggests this issue is quite live in Congress, albeit less visible to most of us.

How will healthcare be impacted? In reviewing all of the privacy and data protection legislation that has been proposed to date, the privacy bills differ significantly in their approaches. In the coming weeks we’ll provide separate blog posts discussing some of the most relevant aspects of pending comprehensive Congressional bills:

  • What types of entities are covered
  • What information is covered
  • What rights are granted to consumers
  • What are the obligations of entities covered by the law
  • What are the penalties for failure to comply

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