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HIPAA Updates and HIPAA Changes in 2023
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed into law in 1996 and while there have been some significant HIPAA updates over the last two decades, the last set of major HIPAA...
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December 2022 Healthcare Data Breach Report
The number of reported healthcare data breaches declined for the second successive month, with 40 data breaches of 500 or more healthcare records reported to the Department of Health and Human...
View ArticleAI in Healthcare
The topic of AI in healthcare often gets mixed reactions. While some people are firm believers in the benefits of AI in healthcare and the considerable benefits to patients, others have concerns about...
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2022 Healthcare Data Breach Report
For the first time since 2015, there was a year-over-year decline in the number of data breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), albeit only by...
View ArticleLawsuit Alleges Christ Hospital Website Has Sent Patient Data to Meta
Earlier this month, a lawsuit was filed against The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH, alleging third-party tracking code had been added to its website that was transmitting sensitive patient data to...
View ArticleFTC Issues First Financial Penalty for a Health Breach Notification Rule...
The Federal Trade Commission’s Health Breach Notification Rule requires vendors of personal health records and related entities to issue notifications to consumers in the event of a breach of unsecured...
View ArticleCedars-Sinai Medical Center Sued for Website Tracking Technology Privacy...
A lawsuit has been filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center alleging impermissible disclosures of patient data to Google, Meta, and other third parties due to the use of website tracking technologies...
View ArticleHIPAA Social Media Rules
HIPAA was enacted several years before social media networks such as Facebook and Instagram existed, so there are no specific HIPAA compliance rules for social media. However, organizations subject to...
View ArticleSenators Demand Answers from Telehealth Firms on Pixel-Related Data Sharing...
A bipartisan group of senators has written to three telehealth companies demanding answers about the use of third-party tracking technologies on their websites and details of the sensitive health data...
View ArticleDemocratic Senators Propose Update to HIPAA to Ban Abortion-Related PHI...
Two Democratic U.S. Senators – Michael Bennett (D-CO) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) – have introduced a bill that seeks to strengthen the privacy protections of the Health Insurance Portability and...
View ArticleWhat Are Covered Entities Under HIPAA?
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) applies to HIPAA-covered entities and their business associates, but what are covered entities under HIPAA, and what sort of companies...
View ArticleState AGs Fine DNA Testing Lab $400,000 for Data Breach
DNA Diagnostics Center (DDC), one of the largest private DNA testing laboratories in the United States, has been fined a total of $400,000 by state attorneys general in Pennsylvania and Ohio for...
View ArticleBiden Administration Considers HIPAA Update to Better Protect Reproductive...
The Biden Administration is considering new rulemaking to update HIPAA to better protect reproductive health information, following the Supreme Court Decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health...
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January 2023 Healthcare Data Breach Report
January is usually one of the quietest months of the year for healthcare data breaches and last month was no exception. In January, 40 data breaches of 500 or more records were reported to the HHS’...
View ArticleOn-the-Spot Intervention 95% Effective at Preventing Further Unauthorized...
Defenses need to be put in place to detect and block attempts by cybercriminals to access healthcare networks, but not all threats are external. Each year, many data breaches are reported by hospitals...
View ArticleCourt Approves FTC’s $1.5 Million Settlement with GoodRx to Resolve FTC Act...
On February 1, 2023, the Department of Justice filed a proposed order on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission prohibiting GoodRx from sharing the health information of its users with third parties...
View ArticleSurvey Reveals a Majority of Americans Are Uncomfortable with AI in Healthcare
A recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found a majority of Americans are uncomfortable with their healthcare providers using artificial intelligence tools to aid the diagnosis and...
View ArticleAmazon Completes Acquisition of OneMedical Amid Concern About Uses of Patient...
Amazon has completed its $3.9 billion acquisition of the primary care provider One Medical as the retail behemoth continues its move into the healthcare ecosystem. One Medical has over 220 medical...
View ArticleDemocratic Senators Introduce Legislation to Ban the Use of Health...
Three Democratic Senators have introduced a bill that seeks to improve personal health data privacy by preventing companies from disclosing personally identifiable health information for advertising...
View ArticleHIPAA Social Media Rules
HIPAA was enacted several years before social media networks such as Facebook and Instagram existed, so there are no specific HIPAA compliance rules for social media. However, organizations subject to...
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