Healthcare and Privacy
Lawyers
DMC Law provides client-centered service by being a trusted advisor, understanding our clients’ businesses and goals, and collaborating with skilled, like-minded lawyers to serve our client’s best interest.
Healthcare and Privacy
Dena M. Castricone, CIPP/US, CIPM
Dena M. Castricone founded DMC Law to help clients meet their privacy and healthcare related legal needs. As a former partner in a respected regional law firm and general counsel and chief of privacy at one of the largest federally qualified health centers in the country, Dena not only understands privacy and healthcare law but she also appreciates operational challenges that organizations face.
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Our Mission
DMC Law’s mission is to provide client-centered, valuable and highly skilled legal services in the areas of health privacy, business privacy and healthcare legal operations with a commitment to developing practical solutions that meet the business needs of our clients as well as mitigate risk.
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In The News
Connie Update: A Study and Some Additional Changes
On June 24, 2025, Connecticut’s governor signed into law a public health act (the Act) that includes updates to the law governing the statewide health information exchange, commonly known as Connie. While these updates are less substantial than those enacted during the 2024 spring legislative session, they represent meaningful progress [...]
Read MoreHIPAA’s Reproductive Health Rule is Vacated: A Review of Purl v. HHS
On June 18, 2025, a federal district court in Texas vacated regulations providing protections for reproductive health information as part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The court found that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) exceeded its authority and unlawfully limited state [...]
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