Along with HIPAA’s requirements for safeguarding protected health information (PHI), HIPAA-covered entities also must pay close attention to the patchwork of federal and state data privacy laws that dictate how different types of...
Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) sent a letter asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch an investigation into Apple and...
In the wake of detailed allegations of patient privacy violations covered in a report co-published by The Markup and STAT, Meta (the parent company of Facebook) is facing a lawsuit over the use of its...
The potential repeal of Roe v. Wade has sparked data security and patient privacy concerns, prompting 40 congressional Democrats to pen a letter to Google asking them to stop collecting and retaining...
Illinois Gastroenterology Group (IGG) suffered a data security incident that potentially impacted 227,943 individuals. IGG discovered unusual network activity on October 22, 2021. On November 18, IGG...
Ballad Health, a 21-hospital health system headquartered in Tennessee, disclosed a healthcare data breach that potentially led to protected health information (PHI) exposure.
On January 13, Ballad...
Recently reported healthcare data breaches included cyberattacks against small and large providers and a medical billing administrator.
Signature Healthcare Suffers Data Security Incident
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Executives for Health Innovation (EHI) released a report with guidance for protecting non-HIPAA-covered health data held by health tech companies.
In the report, EHI advocated for the adoption of...
Oklahoma-based Duncan Regional Hospital (DRH) suffered a data breach in January 2022 that impacted over 92,000 individuals, according to the Maine Attorney General’s Office.
The not-for-profit...
Electronic health data functions primarily to enable the delivery of healthcare services, a viewpoint article published in JAMA Network argued. Sharing that data for research and public health are...
HHS's Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) warned of electronic medical record (EMR) and electronic health record (EHR) security risks in a recent brief. EHRs and EMRs are top...
Responsible implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare requires a focus on security and privacy. AI's capabilities in clinical and research settings are continually expanding, but any new technology brings a host of...
US Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced the Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act intending to modernize health data privacy laws to reflect the current tech landscape....
Two patients are seeking class-action status in a lawsuit against BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy over its handling of an October 2021 data breach that impacted 350,000 individuals. Plaintiffs alleged that...
Siloed security teams, slow threat response, and avoidable data breaches are some of the main concerns of IT leaders today, but security automation and collaboration could ease these struggles, a...
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...
Chief information security officers (CISOs) across a variety of industries, including healthcare, cited ransomware as their current top concern, according to research conducted by CISOs Connect,...
Healthcare trails behind the financial services and insurance sectors in implementing software security initiatives, even though it is a highly regulated industry, according to the 2021 Building...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the formation of the Office of Digital Transformation (ODT), which will report directly to the FDA commissioner. The office is a reorganization of...
