Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, sent a letter to Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, asking for insights into the video conferencing platform’s privacy and security practices, given the drastic increase...
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 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. 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...
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...
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.
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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...
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...
Washington, DC US District Court Judge Amit Mehta issued a blow to the Department of Health and Human Services for its 2013 HIPAA Right of Access rule around third-party requests for patient records,...
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,...
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia is scrutinizing the Defense Health Agency’s cybersecurity practices, as the sensitive medical data of servicemembers continues to be exposed online due to unsecured...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed changes to the Physician Self-Referral Law (Stark Law) and the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute should include patching and update language in...
Alabama-based DCH Health System is facing a federal lawsuit following a ransomware attack that disrupted care for non-critical patients for about 10 days in October, first reported by local news outlet...
Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, unveiled legislation on June 14, focused on closing privacy gaps in HIPAA, which does not currently cover tech like health apps,...
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...
McAlester Regional Health Center (MRHC) in Oklahoma is being sued for an alleged HIPAA violation for sharing information on a boy’s drowning with his biological mother, reported the Pauls Valley...
