Posts in Corporate Healthcare Law
State Health Privacy Laws Expand Beyond HIPAA: What Healthcare Businesses Need to Know About NYHIPA

New York is the latest state to introduce its own health privacy law, the NY Health Information Privacy Act (NYHIPA), signaling a growing trend of state-level regulations extending beyond HIPAA. If enacted, NYHIPA will impose strict requirements on how businesses—both inside and outside the healthcare industry—collect, process, and share consumer health data, making compliance a priority for many organizations.

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Trends and Opportunities for Digital Health Innovators in 2025

Discover the top trends and opportunities for digital health innovators in 2025, from AI adoption and value-based care to regulatory shifts and cybersecurity challenges. These insights from Nixon Law Group will help you navigate the year ahead.

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Point Solution Fatigue, Meet M&A: How Strategic Transactions Can Transform Digital Health

Explore how strategic mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can reduce or even eliminate point solution fatigue by creating more comprehensive and integrated platforms that will improve patient care and reduce administrative burden.

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FTC Finalizes Changes to Health Breach Notification Rule: What Digital Health Companies and App Developers Need to Know

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR), clarifying its applicability to health apps and similar technologies, including those that are not subject to HIPAA. In 2023, FTC began enforcing the HBNR in earnest, with an expanded interpretation of their authority under the HBNR. In the 2024 Final Rule (the 2024 Final Rule), the agency conforms the HBNR to this expanded interpretation, clarifying its breadth for industry and the public.

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Colorado’s New AI Law Sets “National Standard” for Healthcare AI: 5 Things Developers and Deployers Need to Know, Now

Last Friday, Colorado’s governor signed into law the Colorado AI Act (“CAIA”). For digital health companies building with artificial intelligence, CAIA sets the first comprehensive national benchmark for minimum rights and protections for users of healthcare AI, effective February 1, 2026.

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Pharmacy Innovation Series: the DEA Steps into Telepharmacy Regulation

For the first time, the Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”) is becoming directly involved in the telepharmacy space, an industry that the DEA has not previously regulated aside from the loose application of its existing regulations governing online pharmacies. Find out what this means for your business and how you can submit comments to the DEA directly in this post.

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