JD Supra February 15, 2022
On February 9, 2022, U.S. Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) introduced the “Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act.” The bipartisan act, intended to modernize the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and account for emerging health care technologies, would establish a new commission to recommend health information privacy law revisions to Congress. The commission would opine on:
- Potential threats posed to individual health privacy;
- Appropriate time, benefits, and consequences to sharing health information;
- Effectiveness of existing health privacy statutes;
- Recommendations on necessary federal regulations;
- Analysis of financial needs for additional regulations;
- Cost analysis of legislative...
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