The January 30, 2025 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains an article entitled “Providing Interstate Telehealth Abortion Services to Patients in Restrictive States.” In the second sentence, the authors write: “The complexities of telehealth regulation in the United States often result in areas of liability and concern for clinicians providing
On June 25, 2024, the Final Rule issued by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) that amended the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became effective as a means of further protecting personal health information (PHI) related to reproductive healthcare privacy. Following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs
In the 100 days since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was decided, the abortion bans that have gone into effect in more than a dozen states have resulted in nearly 30 million women of reproductive age now living in a state where abortion services are banned. In response, the federal government has continued its