Time for a Check-Up! Checking the Pulse of Healthcare Data Privacy Bills
Today, the law of the land concerning the privacy of individuals’ health information is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and more specifically, the HIPAA Privacy Rule. But one need only take a cursory look at the name of the underlying law (Health Insurance Portability…) to glean that it was never meant to serve as the central healthcare privacy mechanism. Indeed, because HIPAA’s primary function is to provide guardrails for those handling health insurance claims, its rules orient [...]
Announcing A New Blog Series: Takeaways from the European Commission’s Digital Strategy Documents
Because good things come in threes, the European Commission (EC) released no fewer than three important documents related to its plans to make Europe “fit for the digital age” on February 19, 2020. These documents include a Communication entitled “Shaping Europe’s Digital Future”, the “European Strategy for Data” and the highly anticipated white paper “On Artificial Intelligence - A European approach to excellence and trust”. In our effort to help app developers, innovators, and digital small and medium enterprises (SMEs) [...]
Member Spotlight: L’Escapadou
When the first iPad was released in 2010, Pierre Abel and his wife were homeschooling their two daughters. The couple quickly realized that tablets can be a great child-friendly tool to enable learning and encourage creativity. Pierre, a developer and designer of Apple applications since 1983, then launched their family design studio L’Escapadou in France. L’Escapadou roughly translates to ‘the little escapade’ - the act by which one escapes his or her duties, constraints of daily life and habits to [...]
FTC v. Qualcomm – The Big Tech Antitrust Case Nobody’s Talking About
While big press outlets focus on major investigations into Google and Facebook, a more consequential and farther-reaching case is about to reach a critical stage. In a briefing hosted by ACT | The App Association last week, congressional staff heard from a variety of stakeholders who cautioned that a Qualcomm victory in the Federal Trade Commission v. Qualcomm case could significantly harm not just the market for handsets, but any industry vertical impacted by the rise of the internet of [...]
Connected Health Initiative Welcomes New FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn
Recently, the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) sent newly-appointed U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn a welcome letter outlining CHI’s current advocacy on digital health regulations before the agency. Commissioner Hahn joins FDA at a critical time for furthering use of connected health tools and has a fantastic opportunity to continue the agency’s leadership on these issues. For years, CHI has worked with FDA to improve policies and processes through key guidance documents and proposed regulation. We [...]
The California Consumer Privacy Act – What Developers Need to Know
If you checked your email inbox lately you will realize that the long-awaited California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is officially in effect. As a result, virtually every company with a national footprint must now comply with a long list of new requirements that fundamentally change the business-consumer relationship, as well as relationships with other entities with which those companies exchange information. Understandably, this new privacy regime trigged some consternation amongst stakeholders simply trying to decipher whether they fall under CCPA; [...]