Amendment to CCPA Harmonizes Data Privacy and Healthcare Information Requirements - Exemptions for de-Identified Patient Information Under AB 713 Address HIPAA and CCPA Standards
By EsqSocial Corporation 05/11/20
An amendment to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) was signed in September 2020. The CCPA regulates how large companies treat their customers’ personal information. However, the CCPA and healthcare information regulations, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) do not always agree. The CCPA targets for-profit companies, so non-profit healthcare systems and hospital networks were not the focus of the law. However, many healthcare entities were...
By: Knobbe Martens