Andrew B. Serwin is the founding chair of the Privacy, Security, and Information Management Practice and is a partner in the San Diego office of Foley & Lardner LLP.
Mr. Serwin has extensive experience in privacy and security matters, including state, federal and international restrictions on the use and transfer of information, security breach compliance, incident response, marketing restrictions, and the drafting and implementation of privacy and security policies.
Mr. Serwin serves on the privacy and the legal subcommittees of the Privacy & Security Advisory Board of the California Health and Human Services Agency by the California Office of HIPAA Implementation. The committee is charged with developing standards for California's Interoperable Health Information Exchange for electronic health information, which includes creating and adopting a process to develop and set overall standards; overseeing the coordination, analysis, and promulgation of privacy and security requirements for the Health Information Exchange; researching and developing model contracts and related documents; and providing guidance regarding the interaction of HIPAA and California law.
He is the author of Information Security and Privacy: A Practical Guide to Federal, State and International Law, an in-depth treatise that examines all aspects of privacy and security laws, published by Thomson-West.