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…
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Meta Faces Lawsuit For Unlawful Collection Of Patient Data
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…
Report Finds Top US Hospitals Sharing Patient Information To Facebook
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 Acquires One Medical For $3.9 Billion
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…
Study Shows The Importance Of Password Strength
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…
Methodist Hospitals Data Breach Results In $425,000 Settlement
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…
Methodist Hospitals Data Breach Results In $425,000 Settlement
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 Face $100M Lawsuit for Major Breach
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…
HSS OIG Study Shows 40% of Patients Used Telehealth During Pandemic
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…
GAO Calls for HHS HIPAA Breach Reporting Feedback Mechanism
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…
Bipartisan Comprehensive Data Privacy Bill Proposed
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,…
Google Accused of Unauthorized Use to NHS Medical Records in Lawsuit
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…
AMA Launch Program Aimed at Healthcare for Marginalized Patients
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…
Top Hospitals Breaching HIPAA By Sending PHI Via Facebook
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…
FDA Draft Guidelines On Medical Device CyberSecurity Issued
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…
Phishing Attack at Atrium Exposes PHI
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…
MGA HIPAA Breach Triggers Multiple Lawsuits
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…
Study Finds Women’s Health Applications Are Not Secure
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…
Study Finds Telehealth Usage Rates in Line with In Person Treatment Rates
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…
Major Study Validates Telehealth for Chronic Conditions
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…
Meta Sued For Scraping PHI from Hospital Websites
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…
Study Finds Lower Income Groups Less Likely to Benefit from Post Pandemic Telehealth
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…
Artificial Intelligence Can Determine Race Using Medical Imaging
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…