Kirk Nahra has authored an article, “Trying to Make Sense of Health Privacy,” which analyzes the recently introduced Health Information Privacy Reform Act, which attempts to implement federal legislative protection for a wide range of health information not subject to the existing regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. He discusses this proposed legislation both as a means of supplementing the existing HIPAA rules and in the context of the increasingly fragmented and complex landscape of health privacy regulation in the United States.
Read the full article here, which was first published by IAPP.
