As data breaches increase in size, and as large organizations demonstrate their willingness to pay ransom, it only becomes a matter of time before more healthcare organizations are the subject of a coordinated attack.
Let’s be careful and deliberate about what we decide to do with vaccine passports. Considerable consequences to individual freedoms - as well as both societal and public health - are at stake.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Vaccine credential apps can expedite our return to normal life. After a free download, they retrieve the user’s official vaccine record from a trusted registry or healthcare provider and generate a digital vaccine card that is securely stored on their smart phone.
If HIPAA does not apply to Amazon Care, then absent another privacy regulation applying, avoiding exploitation of the data relies on the good faith of the entity operating the service.
Omada’s chief privacy and regulatory officer shared how she set the stage for new interoperability rules while working at the ONC, and how digital health companies should navigate them.
The insurer, which also owns Allegheny Health Network, struck a six-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud, which includes building out a new platform to help better manage patient care.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
The value of digital health data is as vast as its volume – but only if it can be unlocked, managed, and ultimately shared for the greater good.
Digitization is transforming the healthcare industry. The proper risk mitigation framework will ensure continued progress without delays from unfortunate, and potentially preventable, security and privacy breaches.
These new data privacy rules – covering the previous gaps – present an opportunity for healthcare industry organizations to enhance the trust within their data relationships.
Failure to comply with HIPAA safety standards can lead to large fines and, in extreme cases, the loss of medical licenses. One of the most important steps related to HIPAA compliance is a risk assessment.
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
The proposed revisions to protect privacy of substance-abuse patients such as opioid users are a step in the right direction and present solid ideas for improved information sharing. But the proposed changes don’t go far enough to ensure providers have access to all the information they need in the moment they’re making life-changing decisions.
The NHS pitches the service as being especially useful to elderly patients, blind patients and those who cannot access the internet through traditional means.
Quest Diagnostics was notified by collections company vendor American Medical Collection Agency that an unauthorized user had access had access to AMCA’s system between August 1, 2018 and March 30, 2019.
At the AdvaMed Digital MedTech Conference in San Francisco, experts in data privacy explained how new legislation is shaping how the industry thinks about privacy and how to protect patient information and mitigate business risk in an uncertain environment.
The problem, according to researchers, is not fitness trackers themselves, but privacy regulations woefully unprepared to deal with the new types of data being produced, collected and analyzed.