Health PACS are vulnerable to hackers that could expose millions of patients' private health information, according to a new alert from the Department of Health &...
A globally used, prenatal test is being used by a Chinese company to collect patient data, according to a new Reuters report.
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Customers of One Medical, a direct paid, membership-based primary care practice, inadvertently had their email addresses shared with fellow customers.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has made some progress over the past 20 years but more changes need to be implemented to update its antiquated health...
A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed against insurance giant Humana and its vendor Cotiviti following a healthcare data breach impacting 65,000 patients, which was caused by an...
A judge for the US District Court of Nebraska has approved a preliminary settlement in the data breach lawsuit filed against Nebraska Medicine in February 2021. However, most of the terms have...
The US District Court for Pennsylvania’s Eastern District recently dismissed two out of three claims made in a lawsuit filed against Universal Health Services, citing a lack of harm. The...
The Pennsylvania Department of Health and its third-party contractor Insight Global have been sued, after reports that its COVID-19 contact tracing app exposed the sensitive data of at least 72,000...
After reports that personally identifiable information is being unnecessarily collected from patients seeking the COVID-19 vaccine, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy sent a letter to...
A group of 50 Congressional members sent a letter to Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough, after multiple reports of sexual harassment claims made by women veterans and employees....
The Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau, d/b/a American Medical Collection Agency reached a with 41 state attorneys general, which could lead to a $21 million fine, to resolve a multistate investigation...
Rep. Suzan Delbene, D-Washington, introduced a national consumer data privacy bill, which would create a federal data privacy standard and supersede the patchwork of state laws. The proposed...
The Center for Democracy & Technology and the eHealth Initiative & Foundation (eHI) released a newly proposed consumer health data privacy framework, which aims to better secure the privacy of...
US Fertility (USF) has been sued by the individuals impacted by its September ransomware attack, after the threat actors gained access to the third-party vendor’s network for a month and...
A group of Democratic Senators and Congressional membersproposed legislation meant to tackle the privacy and security issues tied to technologies used for the COVID-19 response, including contact...
Easy Healthcare Corp., the owner of fertility app Premom, is being sued by an app user, over claims the company shared personal data with third-party data collection firms in China -- without user...
The Philadelphia Department of Public Health abruptly ended its contract with Philly Fighting COVID, tasked with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, over allegations that the startup...
