When HIPAA Doesn’t Apply | McDermott

When HIPAA Doesn’t Apply

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Jennifer Geetter and Shelby Buettner wrote this bylined article describing how most pharmaceutical and biotech companies are not directly regulated by HIPAA privacy requirements. Absent a HIPAA benchmark for their privacy and security choices, drug companies “must develop their own standards informed by US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) principles and state law,” the authors wrote