University of Pennsylvania researchers found third-party tracking technologies on nearly all US nonfederal acute care hospital websites, a Health Affairs study revealed.
Researchers studied all US...
The healthcare sector ranks lowest in several cybersecurity maturity domains, according to CYE's first Cybersecurity Maturity Report, which suggests that even organizations that handle highly...
Telehealth platform Cerebral reported a healthcare data breach to HHS impacting more than 3.1 million individuals. Cerebral provides online therapy and medication management to millions of...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a $7.8 million settlement with online counseling service BetterHelp, resolving allegations of improper health data sharing practices. In addition, the...
US Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) introduced the Upholding Protections for Health and Online Location Data (UPHOLD) Privacy Act,...
Following Amazon’s finalized acquisition of membership-based primary care practice One Medical, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a letter to Amazon reminding it of its obligations to...
US Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) introduced the Secure Access for Essential Reproductive (SAFER) Health Act, which offers strengthened HIPAA protections that would prohibit...
Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Susan Collins (R-ME), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) sent letters to telehealth companies Cerebral, Monument, and WorkIt Health, addressing concerns...
Cybersecurity leaders are buckling up for rising costs, a challenging talent shortage, and uncertain data breach reporting requirements going into 2023, according to a Deepwatch Q4 2022 SecOps...
An analysis of a dozen opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment and recovery websites revealed significant data privacy concerns and a need for stronger legal protections for addiction treatment data, a...
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) surrounding the Commission’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...
Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) expressed significant health data privacy concerns surrounding the Meta pixel tracking tool in a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
As previously reported, the tool has...
California Governor Gavin Newsom enacted two new bills into law that have implications for abortion data privacy within the state.
As previously reported, the California State Legislature passed...
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted a review of Medicare telehealth services delivered during the pandemic, recommending that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) provide additional...
Spearheaded by US Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a group of 30 Senators urged HHS and the Biden Administration to strengthen HIPAA protections in order to further safeguard patient privacy in the wake of...
Researchers discovered third-party tracking tools on the majority of analyzed abortion clinic websites, raising data privacy concerns, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal...
A group of US House Democrats from the Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking for clarification on the company’s data privacy practices.
“We...
Idaho-based Kochava, a data marketing and analytics company, filed a lawsuit against the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and denied the Commission's allegations of the company’s improper...
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking it to investigate Amazon’s plans to purchase primary care organization One Medical, citing health data...
Meta is facing another lawsuit over its health data privacy practices. As previously reported, a report co-published by The Markup and STAT alleged that Meta (the parent company of Facebook)...