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Health Apps and HIPAA – Recent FAQs Highlight Importance of Covered Entities and Business Associates Scrutinizing their Relationships with App Developers

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a new set of HIPAA FAQs addressing the applicability of HIPAA to certain health apps and the covered entities and business associates that interact with them. These … Continue reading

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Feeling Lucky? You Could Be One of the Nine Covered Entities Selected for HIPAA Compliance Review this Month

If you are a covered entity health plan or clearinghouse, you may be among the nine (un)lucky entities randomly chosen this month for review into compliance with HIPAA’s Administrative Simplification rules governing electronic transactions, code sets, and unique identifiers.  According … Continue reading

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FINTRAC introduces tools to assist reporting entities with AML obligations

Recently, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) announced the introduction of a set of tools (the Tools) aimed at supporting Canadian reporting entities (REs), including financial institutions, in meeting their obligations under the Proceeds of Crime … Continue reading

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US Unseals 2 Indictments against Huawei Corporate Entities – One for Money Laundering, Obstruction of Justice and Sanctions Violations and Another for Theft of Trade Secrets, Wire Fraud et al

On January 28, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed  two indictments against Huawei corporate entities and the Huawei Chief Financial Officer Wanzhou Meng. In the U.S. Court Eastern District of New York, a 13-count indictment was unsealed, charging four … Continue reading

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Government-Sponsored Patent Monetizing Entities

Garry Gabison, Queen Mary University of London – Centre for Commercial Law Studies explores Government-Sponsored Patent Monetizing Entities. ABSTRACT: Government-sponsored patent assertion entities have materialized all over the world. This article looks at the market failure associated with the patent… … Continue reading

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