OCR Issues 11 Further Financial Penalties To Noncompliant Entities
The Department of Health and Human Service’ Office for Civil Rights has recently announced a further 11 financial penalties to HIPAA-regulated entities who have failed…
The Department of Health and Human Service’ Office for Civil Rights has recently announced a further 11 financial penalties to HIPAA-regulated entities who have failed…
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Meta regarding the unlawful collection of sensitive patient information via hospital websites. The lawsuit has come days…
A recent investigation conducted by The Markup has been released uncovering how Meta is using an analytics tool on approximately a third of the U.S.’s…
Amazon has announced that an agreement has been made for Amazon to acquire primary care network One Medical. The deal is valued at $3.9 billion…
A recent study published by Digital Shadows has highlighted the importance of password strength. In 2022 alone, approximately 24,650,000,000 account usernames and passwords have been…
A class action lawsuit has been settled in the Harris County District Court in Texas involving the Methodist Hospitals Inc. The settlement comes as a…
A class action lawsuit has been settled in the Harris County District Court in Texas involving the Methodist Hospitals Inc. The settlement comes as a…
Tenet Healthcare and Baptist Health have received a class action lawsuit as a result of a major data breach affecting approximately 1.2 million individuals. On…
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General has published a study analyzing medicare beneficiaries’ use of telehealth during the initial year…
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report suggesting that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) introduces a mechanism for feedback to…
A draft bipartisan bill has been introduced to replace current data privacy laws in different U.S.states. Introduced to the house of representatives in early June,…
A new class-action lawsuit has been filed against Google in the Uk as a result of a 2016 data scandal, which involved the discovery of…
The American Medical Association, in collaboration with Boston-based Brogham and Women’s Hospital and the Joint Commision, has introduced a new learning network aimed to assist…
According to a recent analysis of hospital websites, a third of the top 100 hospitals in the US are sharing patient information to Facebook using…
The FDA has published a draft guidance regarding medical device cybersecurity. With the guidance entitled “‘Cybersecurity in Medical Devices: Quality System Considerations and Content of…
Atrium Health, a hospital network located in Charlotte, North Carolina, has notified patients that an unauthorized third party had accessed the PHI they maintain. Atrium…
Multiple lawsuits will take place in the U.S. District Court of Western Washington regarding a significant breach of PHI. At least 4 class-action lawsuits have…
The global market for mobile applications is seeing a continuous rise in the phenomena known as women’s mobile health (mHealth). The mHealth applications provide services…
In the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. federal government implemented temporary Medicare policy changes as part of the public health emergency. Coverage for…
The COVID-19 pandemic generated a variety of notable changes within the U.S healthcare industry. In the beginning, a significant portion of care was postponed due…
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Meta for allegedly scraping PHI from hospital and medical provider websites. The case was filed in the Northern…
A study published by JMIR found that populations with lower income are less likely to benefit from telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of…
A recent study published in The Lancet Digital Health has found that artificial intelligence has the ability to determine the race of a patient using…