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
- MACRA’s Advancement of EHR Interoperability and Telehealth - (Posted On Friday, April 24, 2015)
- Could the Anthem Hack Happen Again? New Report Analyzes Insurers’ Cyber Security Programs - (Posted On Thursday, February 12, 2015)
- Happy Privacy Day! re: HIPAA, Health Care, Security - (Posted On Wednesday, January 28, 2015)
- HIPAA Corrective Action Plan: On the Tenth Day of Privacy, OCR Gave to Me...a Cumbersome C-A-P - (Posted On Monday, December 22, 2014)
- Cliff Notes from the Joint Office for Civil Rights (OCR)/National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) HIPAA Security Conference - (Posted On Tuesday, September 30, 2014)
- Massive Data Breach Affects 4.5 Million Patients in 29 States - (Posted On Wednesday, August 20, 2014)
- Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Confirms that Medical Records Should Not be Left in the Driveway - (Posted On Wednesday, June 25, 2014)
- Five Lessons from Office of Civil Rights (OCR’s) Reports to Congress on Breaches and HIPAA Rules Compliance - (Posted On Friday, June 20, 2014)
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to Hold Part 2 “Listening Session” - (Posted On Wednesday, May 21, 2014)
- Is Your Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Compliance Program Going Out the Window with XP? - (Posted On Tuesday, April 08, 2014)