Silicon Valley Law Group Blog
Silicon Valley Law Group is pleased to announce the publication of Attorney Stephen S. Wu’s new book: “A Guide to HIPAA Security and the Law – Second Edition.” The American Bar Association published his book last month. The book provides detailed information about healthcare information technology security legal requirements and how covered entities and business associates can comply with them.
Also, please join us for a special Meetup presentation, in which Steve Wu will share his thoughts on an important topic covered in one of his book’s chapters: the impact of emerging technologies on HIPAA security compliance. The program is on September 28, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time at SVLG’s offices. A dial-in is available for those unable to attend in person.
The Department of Health and Human Services issued the HIPAA Security Rule in 2003 to impose information technology security requirements on HIPAA covered entities: healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses. Later legislation and regulation also imposed HIPAA security requirements on various “business associates” of these covered entities. Despite some changes in coverage and the breach notification rule, the core HIPAA security requirements have remained unchanged since 2003. Nonetheless, technology trends such as cloud computing, social media, and mobile computing required applying the existing rules to new technologies. Moreover, we are now facing dramatic and sweeping changes with augmented and virtual reality systems, Big Data, 3D printing, healthtech, the Internet of Things, robots, and artificial intelligence systems.
Steve Wu’s program will cover how HIPAA covered entities and business associates can meet their HIPAA security requirements in the face of rapid changes caused by these emerging technologies.
Please RSVP here if you can attend the program: https://www.meetup.com/Information-Security-and-the-Law/events/233720510/. A dial-in and a link to the slides will be available on this page before the talk.
Also, please contact Christine Van Osdol if you can attend the program at our offices in person at cvo@svlg.com so we can plan refreshments.
More information about Steve Wu is available here: https://www.svlg.com/stephen-s-wu.html His email address is ssw@svlg.com.
Please watch for announcements about future presentations hosted by Steve Wu. He hosts a monthly Meetup Group on Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law, as well as occasional programs on the Information Security and the Law Meetup group.
We hope you can attend September’s program, and thank you for your interest.
Silicon Valley Law Group