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Healthcare

The Cost Of A Data Breach: The Health Care Perspective

The best-known provision of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (“HITECH”) was the amendment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 to provide for the promulgation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human...

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Cybersecurity

Responsibility For Data Privacy Does Not Pass With Custody: What Service Providers’ Security Audits And Certifications Mean For Corporate Counsel

Visit any business-data-related website and you will find at least one article on the efforts of international hackers to infiltrate U.S. corporate networks to steal both intellectual property and personally identifiable information. While IT departments of potential targets are making...

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Technology

Board-Level Preparation For Radical Transparency

Editor: What are your qualifications to discuss this topic? Mack: Five years ago, former Judge Ronald Hedges, Carole Basri and I developed a plan for chartering a board-approved eDiscovery compliance program, including information governance and risk, modeled on the seven elements of the U.S....

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