A growing number of states are enacting new genetic data privacy laws to protect patients from misuse of data and to hold private companies accountable for proper data governance practices.
HIPAA...
A person’s face is their most publicly-identifiable feature, which explains why people may be wary of facial recognition technology’s healthcare functions in terms of patient privacy, data...
Over 64 percent of parents or guardians have accessed their child’s patient portal and viewed outbound messages at least once, showing a need to address adolescent patient privacy and...
A ransomware attack on one of southeast Georgia’s largest healthcare systems exposed both staff and patients’ protected health information (PHI.)
St. Joseph’s/Candler...
Prestera Center is notifying patients of a recent data breach that includes protected health information.
The breach includes unauthorized access to employee email accounts...
Oklahoma Heart Hospital is notifying patients about a patient privacy incident that involved some patients’ protected health information (PHI) accidentally being donated to a...
The Cancer Center of Greenwood Leflore Hospital is reporting that some of its patients’ protected health information (PHI) is part of the larger Elekta data...
Intermountain Healthcare of Southern Nevada is one of the latest victims of the larger Elekta health data breach, which exposed patients’ protected health...
A newly signed Connecticut cybersecurity law will now allow for the protection of patient data and other private health information.
An Act Concerning Data Privacy...
ClearBalance, a California-based company, is notifying over 200,000 customers that their personally identifiable information (PII) may have been stolen during a recent...
The Iowa-based Peoples Community Health Clinic (PCHC) notified patients on June 29 that a recent cyberattack may have impacted patients’ private information.
PCHC...
Health PACS are vulnerable to hackers that could expose millions of patients' private health information, according to a new alert from the Department of Health &...
A globally used, prenatal test is being used by a Chinese company to collect patient data, according to a new Reuters report.
The exclusive Reuters report,...
A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed against insurance giant Humana and its vendor Cotiviti following a healthcare data breach impacting 65,000 patients, which was caused by an...
A judge for the US District Court of Nebraska has approved a preliminary settlement in the data breach lawsuit filed against Nebraska Medicine in February 2021. However, most of the terms have...
Two months after the Conti ransomware hacking group leaked data they claim to have stolen from Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services (RMCHCS), 207,195 patients are being notified of the...
The COVID-19 response resulted in a virtual care boom that’s expected to last well beyond the pandemic. As telehealth continues to support the shift in healthcare, ensuring a minimal security...
The US District Court for Pennsylvania’s Eastern District recently dismissed two out of three claims made in a lawsuit filed against Universal Health Services, citing a lack of harm. The...
