Apple recently announced the launch of a new COVID-19 screening app and website based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In response, a group of Senators are looking into...
Zoom announced it plans to enact a freeze on all feature development and shift its engineering resources for the next 90 days to focus on privacy and security issues, in light of recent cybersecurity...
The Office for Civil Rights released guidance for how protected health information on patients exposed or infected with COVID-19 can be shared with first responders, such as law enforcement,...
Thirteen civil-society groups are urging Congress to keep patient privacy protections center stage in any drafted Coronavirus relief packages, and any waivers of these protections must exclusively...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights released a list of frequently asked questions to common concerns raised about its recent move to lift certain HIPAA penalties...
A recent study from Kantar shows that privacy and security concerns are hindering patients’ willingness to use health technology, such as patient portals to improve their care. And while many in...
A group of Democratic Senators are raising concerns about the potential Google COVID-19 screening website over possible privacy and cybersecurity risks, after the Trump Administration announced Google...
Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, released his spin on federal privacy legislation on March 12 that would establish a national privacy standard and preempt state privacy laws, after bipartisan talks came to...
Sens. Bill Cassidy, MD, R-Louisiana, Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, and Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, are pressing Ascension on its data sharing agreement it holds with Google, given the tech...
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...
The US District Court in New Jersey issued a final approval of a class-action lawsuit settlement between Quest Diagnostics and the patients impacted by a 2016 data breach. The testing giant will pay...
Walgreens announced on Friday that it inadvertently exposed the personal messages stored on its messaging app due to an internal error.
On January 15, officials said they first discovered an error in...
The University of Washington Medicine is facing a class-action lawsuit following its disclosure of a patient data breach that impacted 974,00 patients.
According to the lawsuit filed in the King...
Hackensack Meridian Health, one of the largest health systems in New Jersey, is facing a class-action lawsuit, following a ransomware attack that drove the provider offline for several days in...
The Department of Health and Human Service Office of the Inspector General recently discovered widespread inappropriate access and use of Medicare beneficiary data by pharmacies and other healthcare...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...