Lexology April 5, 2024
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Compliance Insights for Washington’s My Health My Data Act

One of the most notable privacy law developments from 2023, in what was a landmark year for the field, was the passage of Washington state’s . The My Health My Data Act represents a new category of US privacy law – one that focuses on protecting “consumer health data” that falls outside the scope of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) “Non-HIPAA” health data has been a focus for and regulators in recent years (particularly the ), but the MHMDA is the first US privacy law that broadly and comprehensively develops rules for this area.

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