Dianne J. Bourque

Associate

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(617) 348-1614 office phone

DBourque@mintz.com email

One Financial Center
Boston, MA 02111

Dianne is an Associate in the firm’s Health Law Section. She advises a variety of health care clients on a broad range of issues, including licensure, regulatory, contractual, and risk management matters, and patient care. A large part of Dianne’s 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. She also counsels health care clients and other business entities on the requirements of the HIPAA Privacy Rule and Security Standards, including new requirements under the HITECH provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), as well as state-imposed medical privacy laws. She regularly assists clients with 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 Levin, 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.

Before entering law school, Dianne was a freelance writer and editor for Compliance Engineering Magazine, and served as a Special Projects Manager and a Public Information Coordinator for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.

Dianne received her B.A. from Boston College (1989) and a joint J.D./Master of Public Administration from Suffolk University Law School and Suffolk University Sawyer School of Management (1999). Her J.D. was awarded, cum laude, with Distinction and she was the first Suffolk University law student to graduate with a concentration in Health Care and Biomedical Law. She continues to serve as an Adjunct Professor at Stonehill College, teaching an undergraduate course entitled Health Care Law.

Admissions

Massachusetts

Education

Boston College
BA
Suffolk University
JD
Suffolk University
MPA

Publications

Health Care Reform Advisory: How ACOs Will Use and Disclose Protected Health Information While Complying with HIPAA
Life Sciences Advisory: FDA to Begin Revamping the 510(k) Medical Device Review Program
Health Care Reform Advisory: CMS Issues Proposed Rule Addressing Enhanced Program Integrity Requirements
Life Sciences Advisory: New Proposed HIPAA Rules May Benefit Researchers
Health Law Advisory: New Proposed HIPAA Rules May Benefit Researchers
Employment, Labor and Benefits and Health Law Advisory: Finally! HHS Issues Proposed Rule Implementing Changes to the HIPAA Privacy, Security and Enforcement Rules under HITECH
The HITECH Act: Is Your Organization Ready for Implementation?
Privacy and Security Alert: Tick-Tock: It's February 1 - The Countdown to Compliance with the Massachusetts Data Security Regulations Has Begun!
Health Care Reform Advisory: Comparative Effectiveness Research Proposals — Potential Implications for Stakeholders
Health Law / Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Alert: HHS Issues Interim Final Rule Implementing Civil Penalty Provisions of HITECH Act
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation / Health Law Advisory: Department of Health and Human Services Issues Proposed Regulation Updating the HIPAA Privacy Rule for Changes under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation / Health Law Advisory: DOL, Treasury and HHS Issue Joint Interim Final Rule under Title I of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (Relating to Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Issuers)
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation / Health Law Advisory: HHS Issues Rules Relating to Breach Notification and Related Items under the HITECH Act
Privacy and Security Alert: Analysis of Amendments to Massachusetts Data Security Regulations
Health Law Alert: OHRP Publishes New Registration Requirements for IRBs
Issues and Trends in the Regulation of Genetic Testing
Privacy Article: RFID use in health care raises privacy questions.

Events

6/1/2011
Webinar: Privacy & Security under HIPAA/HITECH in an Era of Heightened Enforcement

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