Dianne advises a variety of health care clients on a broad range of issues, including licensure, regulatory, contractual, and risk management matters, and patient care. As former in-house counsel to an academic medical center, a large part of her practice involves counseling researchers and research sponsors in matters related to FDA and OHRP regulated clinical research, including patient consent, access to and use of tissue and associated patient information, and the Institutional Review Board process. In addition, Dianne currently serves as a Vice Chair of AHLA's Health Care Reform Education Task Force.
She also counsels health care clients and other business entities on a broad range of privacy and data security issues, including the HIPAA Privacy Rule and Security Standards, including requirements under HITECH and the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, 42 CFR Part 2, and state-imposed medical privacy laws. She regularly assists clients with data breach response and mitigation, the implementation of HIPAA-mandated policies and procedures, privacy audits, third-party requests for information, and review of HIPAA-related contracts and forms. She has successfully defended clients in both civil and criminal HIPAA enforcement actions and regularly assists clients with the management of data breaches and other losses of protected health information.
Before joining Mintz, Dianne was an associate staff attorney at the Lahey Clinic, where she provided general counsel services to medical, professional, and administrative staff. She also served as counsel to the Institutional Review Board, the Ethics Committee, the Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Committee, and the Genetics Advisory Board. Before joining the Lahey Clinic’s legal staff, she worked in the research administration department. Her responsibilities included drafting a regulatory compliance manual detailing laws of concern in basic, clinical, and animal research, continually reviewing relevant regulations to ensure compliance for institutional programs, and researching and advising clients on a broad range of regulatory matters.
Dianne was the first Suffolk University law student to graduate with a concentration in Health Care and Biomedical Law. She formerly served as an adjunct professor at Stonehill College, teaching an undergraduate Health Care Law course.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Dianne J. Bourque
- Highlights of the Joint National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Safeguarding Health Information Conference - (Posted On Saturday, May 25, 2013)
- Final Medical Marijuana Regulations Approved in Massachusetts - (Posted On Saturday, May 11, 2013)
- Firearms Debate Triggers Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) Request for Comments - (Posted On Thursday, April 25, 2013)
- Medical Marijuana – Massachusetts Department of Public Health Posts Proposed Regulations - (Posted On Monday, April 01, 2013)
- Countdown Begins for HIPAA Omnibus Rule Compliance - (Posted On Wednesday, March 27, 2013)
- Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Wants Feedback From Audited Covered Entities - (Posted On Wednesday, March 20, 2013)
- The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) New HIPAA Omnibus Rule & Your Liability — A Detailed Review - (Posted On Monday, February 18, 2013)
- The New HIPAA Omnibus Rule & Your Liability - (Posted On Sunday, February 17, 2013)
- HIPAA Omnibus Rule Reference Chart - (Posted On Wednesday, January 23, 2013)
- Finally! HHS Office of Civil Rights Releases HIPAA Omnibus Rule With Sweeping Changes to Compliance Requirements and Enforcement - (Posted On Sunday, January 20, 2013)