This article covers a newly passed Florida law that requires health care providers and digital health technology platforms using certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) to ensure that all patient information is physically maintained within the United States or Canada.
This article discusses the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's draft guidance on artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-enabled devices.
The draft guidance — "Marketing Submission Recommendations for a Predetermined Change Control Plan for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)-Enabled Device Software Functions" — was issued on April 3, 2023.
This article discusses the friendly-PC model, which is a common structure designed to comply with state corporate practice of medicine doctrines. The friendly-PC model involves a professional service corporation (PSC) conducting a medical practice in affiliation with a management services organization (MSO).
Although the friendly-PC model may be a solution to the corporate practice of medicine doctrine, it can create unintended consequences for employee benefit plans sponsored by the PSC and MSO.
This article discusses the US Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA) new regulation temporarily extending the “full set” of COVID-19 waivers for prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine.
Originally published by Foley & Lardner LLP on May 11, 2023.
Despite improvements in cybersecurity-related disclosures, the SEC observed inconsistency in reporting practices. The objective of the new rules is to achieve uniform, comparable, and decision-useful disclosures that empower investors to make well-informed evaluations of a company’s cybersecurity posture. This resource from Womble Bond Dickinson delves into the final rules that enhance cybersecurity disclosure.
This article from Womble Bond Dickinson assesses some of the drivers of supply chain disruption in the U.S. and Europe and considers what businesses can do to mitigate the risks. These issues are likely to impact all sectors, however, they have particularly impacted the construction industry in recent years.
This article provides an overview of the International Sustainability Standards Board's inaugural sustainability disclosure standards. The standards are a significant step towards the development of a global baseline of corporate reporting standards on sustainability and climate change, integrated with financial reporting standards.
This article examines, from an English law perspective, the legal issues you need to be familiar with whether you are engaged in data scraping (either directly or through a third party), or if you are concerned that your content is being scraped and exploited without your consent.
This whitepaper provides an overview of the most important provisions of the NIS2 Directive, also known as the new version of the Network and Information Security Directive. NIS2 is a European directive aimed at strengthening cybersecurity in the European Union (EU).
This article discusses the Cyberspace Administration of China's (“CAC”) May 30, 2023 release of the long-awaited “Guidelines for the Filing of Standard Contracts Regarding Export of Personal Information (First Edition).
The guidelines provide clarity for organizations that are looking to rely on Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) to transfer personal information collected in Mainland China (“PRC Data”) to an offshore recipient.