Patient Privacy News

Sens. Reintroduce Privacy Law for Substance Use Disorder Treatment

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Sens. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, and Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, reintroduced the Protecting Jessica Grubbs Legacy Act, a privacy bill designed to modernize 42 CFR Part 2 regulations to...

Senate Bill Would Create Federal Data Protection Agency

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Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, D-New York, recently unveiled her take on privacy legislation, which would establish a federal data protection agency (DPA) to give consumers more control over their...

eHI, CDT Partner on Consumer Privacy Framework for Health Data

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eHealth Initiative and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) are partnering on the development of a consumer privacy framework for health data not currently protected by HIPAA. The Building a...

Privacy Leaders: Congress, Not ONC, Holds Onus for Health App Privacy

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Industry stakeholders are urging the Office of the National Coordinator to release its proposed interoperability and information blocking rules without delay, in response to a recent push from EHR...

AHIP: CMS Price Transparency Proposal Poses Patient Privacy Risk

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In November, the Trump Administration rolled out broad transparency rules designed to provide consumers with more insights into how much hospitals charge health insurers for both out-of- and in-network...

Lawsuits Filed Against Health Quest, Tidelands After Data Breach Reports

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Health Quest and Tidelands Health are both facing lawsuits after the providers reported potential data breaches. Health Quest recently added more patients to the tally of victims impacted by a 2018...

CCFH Urges Lawmakers, OCR to Uphold Patient Privacy Protections

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Citizens Council for Health Freedom is calling on state legislators to defend the Minnesota Health Records Act (MHRA) following reports of some major healthcare partnerships with large tech companies,...

NIST Shares Enterprise Risk Management Privacy Framework

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NIST recently released its privacy framework designed to provide organizations with privacy protection strategies to improve their current methods for using and protecting sensitive data,...

Could Patient Privacy Awareness Drive Health IT Innovation in 2020?

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The past year in health IT security was one of the worst seen in recent years, with multiple breaches each impacting several millions of patients. Patients are also growing increasingly aware of their...

Consumer Adoption of Health Tech Slowed by Privacy, Security Concerns

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While more than half of American consumers believe that technology can shed light on their healthcare and foster strong relationships with their providers, privacy and security concerns have a direct...

Woman Charges WV Firm With Violating Her Patient Privacy Rights

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Elizabeth Fry, a resident of Logan County, West Virginia, has filed a state lawsuit in Kanasha Circuit Court charging that Charleston-based Molina Information Systems violated her patient privacy...

KS Healthcare Organization Fined over Unsecured Patient Data

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Topeka, Kansas-based Pearlie Mae’s Compassion and Care LLC recently agreed to pay an $8,750 civil penalty after allegations that it had unsecured patient data in one of its office...

Medical Record Security Key Focus in Indiana Senate Bill

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Database owners are now required to ensure medical record security by safeguarding healthcare data stored in their systems, according to a recently updated Indiana bill. Senate Bill 549 changed the...

3 Critical Steps for Managing Third-Party Access to Your EHR

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Before a hospital grants any kind of network access to users from an outside organization, like a physician’s practice, it must determine to whom access is granted and for how long. It is a...