The Biden administration issued an executive order to protect American data privacy. On the same day, the Senate HELP committee released its report on health data privacy with suggestions to update HIPAA for a modern healthcare world.
President Biden’s newest executive order tasks the Department of Justice (DOJ) with creating a regulatory framework for data privacy to protect sensitive data, including personal health information.
The executive order was issued on 28 February. The Departments of Health and Human Services, Defense, and Veterans Affairs were...
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