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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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),…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’…