Yearly Archives: 2026
Department of Education Scales Back Enforcement of Program Participation Agreement Owner-Entity Signature Requirements
On January 16, 2026, the Department of Education (“ED”) released electronic announcement GENERAL-26-04 Program Participation Agreement Signature Requirements, which addresses the circumstances under which an owner-entity of an eligible institution of higher education is required to sign a Program Participation Agreement (“PPA”). Following settlement of litigation challenging the “co-signature” requirement, […]
CLIENT ALERT: HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE VULNERABILITIES
What Happened? On January 13, 2026 Epic Systems, the owner and provider of the largest electronic health record platform in the USA filed a lawsuit in California alleging that numerous bad actors had likely accessed national health information exchange frameworks (“HIE”) and engaged in activities to fraudulently steal and access […]