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Digital Health, Telehealth August 16, 2022

Visibly’s Digital Vision Test Awarded FDA Approval

The US Food and Drug Administration has recently awarded 501(k) clearance to Visibly for their self-administered online visual test. The Visibly Digital Acuity Product is…


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Healthcare IT Compliance August 15, 2022

Florida Orthopaedic Institute Settles Class-Action Data Breach Lawsuit For $4M

Florida Orthopaedic Institute (FOI) has agreed to a $4 million settlement for a class-action lawsuit regarding a data breach affecting approximately 640,000 individuals. In June…


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Healthcare IT Compliance August 15, 2022

Novant Health Notifies 1.36 Million Patients Of Meta Pixel Data Breach

Novant Health has recently issued a notification reporting a data breach has occurred involving the PHI of over 1.36 million patients. The unauthorized disclosure of…


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Healthcare IT Security August 11, 2022

Study Finds Email Warnings Reduce Unauthorized Employee EHR Access

A recent study published in JAMA Open Network has found that prompt action taken immediately following the detection of unauthorized access to protected health information…


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Digital Health, Healthcare IT Compliance August 10, 2022

Telehealth Solution Provider Let’s Talk Achieves Full HIPAA Compliance

Telehealth solution provider, Let’s Talk, has announced that it has achieved full HIPAA compliance. The statement, issued on April 13, 2022, confirmed that the provider…


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Digital Health August 8, 2022

Survey Finds Wearables Improves Health For 7 In 10 Healthcare Consumers

A report issued by Deloitte has found that 70 percent of US citizens believe that wearables have improved their health and fitness. As a result…


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Healthcare IT Compliance August 5, 2022

Dental Care Alliance Pays $3 million For Data Breach

A class action lawsuit has been settled by Dental Care Alliance as the result of a data breach affecting 1.7 million individuals. Dental Care Alliance…


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Healthcare IT Compliance August 4, 2022

Fast Track Urgent Care Announces Data Breach Affecting 259,411 Individuals

Fast Track Urgent Care, a network of urgent healthcare clinics based in Florida, has recently announced that it has experienced a data breach affecting 259,411…


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Healthcare IT Compliance August 3, 2022

Aetna ACE Announces Data Breach Affecting 326,278 Clients

Aetna ACE has recently announced it has been subject to a ransomware attack on a mailing vendor. The data breach involves the unauthorized disclosure of…


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Telehealth August 1, 2022

Study Finds Telehealth Is Effective For Abortion Medication Services

A recent study published in the Annals of Family Medicine has revealed that telehealth sufficiently supported abortion services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the…


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Telehealth August 1, 2022

Study Finds Medicare RPM Use Increased During Pandemic

A recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine has found that remote patient monitoring has significantly increased among Medicare recipients during the COVID-19 pandemic. From…


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Telehealth July 28, 2022

Study Finds Telehealth Fails To Reduce After-Hours Workload For Physicians

A recent study published in JMIR Medical Informatics has demonstrated that an increase in telehealth use may lead to an increase in after-hours work for…


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Digital Health July 28, 2022

Study Finds mHealth App To Accurately Monitor Glucose Levels In Type 2 Diabetics

A recent study published in JMIR has found that an mHealth application is a suitable method for treating type 2 diabetes patients’ short-term glycemic control….


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Healthcare IT Compliance July 28, 2022

Colorado-based Professional Finance Company Suffers Ransomware Attack

Professional Finance Company, a Greely, Colorado-based accounts receivable management company has announced that they experienced a ransomware attack in February 2022. The payment vendor provides…


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Healthcare IT Compliance July 27, 2022

Cloud Security Alliance Issues Third Party Vendor Risk Management Guidelines

The Cloud Security Alliance has released guidelines advising how healthcare organizations can manage risks to data security posed by third party vendors. Business associates of…


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Healthcare IT July 24, 2022

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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Healthcare IT July 23, 2022

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…


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Healthcare IT Security July 22, 2022

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…


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Digital Health July 21, 2022

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…


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Healthcare IT Security July 20, 2022

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…


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Healthcare IT July 19, 2022

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…


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Healthcare IT Compliance July 19, 2022

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…


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Healthcare IT Compliance, Healthcare IT Security July 18, 2022

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…


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Telehealth July 17, 2022

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…


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Healthcare IT, Healthcare IT Compliance July 15, 2022

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…


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Healthcare IT, Healthcare IT Compliance July 15, 2022

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,…


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Healthcare IT Compliance July 14, 2022

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…


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Digital Health July 13, 2022

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…


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Healthcare IT, Healthcare IT Compliance July 12, 2022

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…


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Healthcare IT Compliance, Healthcare IT Security July 11, 2022

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…


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Healthcare IT Security July 10, 2022

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…


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Healthcare IT July 9, 2022

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…


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Digital Health, Healthcare IT Security, Telehealth July 8, 2022

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…


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Digital Health, Telehealth July 7, 2022

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…


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Digital Health, Telehealth July 6, 2022

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…


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Healthcare IT Compliance, Healthcare IT Security July 5, 2022

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…


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Healthcare IT Security July 4, 2022

Google Deletes Location History For Abortion Clinic Visits

Google recently stated that customers who visit sensitive locations, such as abortion clinics, will have their location information automatically deleted. In a blog posted by…


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Telehealth June 29, 2022

Telemedicine Equipment Market Expected to be over $14 Billion by 2030

A recent report has estimated that the Telemedicine Equipment Market worth is expected to grow to over $14 billion by 2030. The study was conducted…


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Healthcare IT Security June 23, 2022

PHI Exposed Because of Hacking Incidents in 3 HIPAA-Regulated Entities

PHI of Nearly 69,000 Individuals Exposed in Comstar Hacking Incident Comstar located in Rowley, MA offers ambulance billing, collection, ePCR Hosting, and patient/client services. It…


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Healthcare IT Compliance June 16, 2022

Shields Health Care Group Confronted With Class Action Lawsuit Due to 2 Million-Record Data Breach

Shields Health Care Group is confronted with a class-action lawsuit because of the 2 million-record data breach it recently reported. This is the largest healthcare…


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Healthcare IT Compliance June 10, 2022

2 Million Patients Affected by Shields Health Care Group Cyberattack

The protected health information (PHI) of approximately 2 million persons was possibly exposed in a cyberattack on Shields Health Care Group. Shields Health Care Group…


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Healthcare IT Security June 3, 2022

Hackers Could Take Advantage of Zero Day Microsoft Office Vulnerability with Macros Disabled

Microsoft has released a security alert and has given a solution to stop a zero-day vulnerability identified in the Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT)…


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Telehealth June 1, 2022

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…


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Healthcare IT Security June 1, 2022

Joint Advisory About MedusaLocker Ransomware Issued By FBI, CISA, & FinCEN

A joint cybersecurity alert regarding the MedusaLocker ransomware has been released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),…


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Digital Health June 1, 2022

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…


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Healthcare IT Compliance May 25, 2022

More than 850,000 Persons Impacted by Cyberattack on Partnership Health Plan of California

In March 2022, Partnership HealthPlan of California (PHC) stated that third-party forensic experts were involved to help recover the service of its IT solutions subsequent…


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Healthcare IT Compliance, Healthcare IT Security May 19, 2022

Cyberattacks Reported by Schneck Medical Center, and NuLife Med

The medical equipment firm NuLife Med LLC located in Manchester, NH, has lately reported that it suffered a cyberattack in March 2022. It detected suspicious…


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Healthcare IT Security May 11, 2022

Email Security Cases Announced by HealthPlex and Optima Dermatology

Healthplex Inc., one of the biggest dental insurance companies based in New York, has reported the compromise of an employee’s email account because of a…


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Healthcare IT Security May 4, 2022

HSCC Published Operational Continuity-Cyber Incident Checklist

An Operational Continuity-Cyber Incident (OCCI) checklist published by the Health Sector Coordinating Council’s (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG)  works as a versatile template for dealing…


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Healthcare IT Compliance April 27, 2022

HHS Advises HPH Sector Regarding Insider Threats in Medical Care

Numerous healthcare data breaches are happening, yet not all privacy and security problems originate from beyond the company. The Department of Health and Human Services’…


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