Healthcare workers’ alleged biometric information “collected, used, and stored to access medications and medical supplies for patient health care treatment” is excluded from coverage under section 10 of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy... Read more »
THIS WEEK’S DOSE Congress Passes CR: Congress passed a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government funded into early March. Senate Hearing on Long COVID: The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee... Read more »
Transcript Alitia Faccone: Welcome to Jackson Lewis’s podcast, We get work™, focused solely on workplace issues. It is our job to help employers develop proactive strategies, strong policies, and business-oriented solutions to... Read more »
Tia Martarella discusses the Supreme Court’s involvement in the Affordable Care Act’s anti-discrimination mandate and what that will mean for the interpretation of its nondiscrimination protections, specifically regarding sexual orientation and gender... Read more »
Phishing has long been a favorite tactic for threat actors (hackers) to commence a cyberattack. The rapid expansion of more adaptable and available artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as natural language processing... Read more »
Protecting the healthcare sector from the ever-increasing cyber threat is a matter of national security. Indeed, on March 1, 2023, President Biden issued the National Cybersecurity Strategy where the President emphasized the... Read more »
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a plan to provide resources and incentives for the healthcare industry to adopt cybersecurity measures and to increase potential regulatory penalties... Read more »
Employers and unions are getting fed up with the firms they have used for years to help control their spending on prescription drugs—because their costs keep soaring. Footwear retailer Foot Locker dropped... Read more »
Key Takeaways: On October 4, 2023, New York’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement for healthcare employees was repealed The repeal is effective immediately In August 2021, New York’s Department of Health adopted an emergency... Read more »
Last week, healthcare-focused market research firm Trilliant Health released a report detailing the most significant economic trends affecting stakeholders in the U.S. healthcare sector this year. Some of the main ideas covered... Read more »