MD Anderson doesn’t have to pay $4.3M HIPAA penalty, court rules
An appellate court lifted a $4.3 million HIPAA fine imposed on the Texas-based cancer care center two years ago for losing the personal health information of more than 33,000 people.
Proposed HIPAA changes generally favorable, though new burdens may arise, experts say
The HHS has proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule — the biggest in seven years, a healthcare lawyer said. But while the changes aim to improve information sharing, they could also bring about challenges for providers and payers.
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
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.
Faster health data exchange starts with addressing health IT’s control concerns
This outbreak has shown us that we need to be much faster, more nimble and better prepared to confidently share health data across organizations.
Will Covid-19 kill HIPAA? No, but…
Doctors, lawyers, data privacy and security experts weigh in on the future of HIPAA after rules have been relaxed to better tackle the public health crisis that Covid-19 represents.
Does Epic’s CEO have a point on privacy?
With data-blocking rules expected to go into effect soon, patients should finally be able to access and freely share their health data. But should those rules also include privacy protections for those that opt to share their data with health apps?
Google Health has the data, but can it gain patients’ trust?
Google Health’s vice president explained the company’s controversial partnership with Ascension Health, which stirred questions about privacy as tech companies seek a larger role in healthcare.
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A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
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 importance of HIPAA risk assessments
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.
A look at the different ways in which HIPAA is enforced
Although historically they have been infrequent, the pace of settlements from attorneys general has picked up over recent years.
Ciitizen launches scorecard to rate providers on patient data access
The name-and-shame strategy is taken out of the playbook of the healthcare quality movement, which Ciitizen claims has moved the needle in helping to improve measurement and reporting standards by providers nationwide.
Allscripts agrees to $145M settlement for Practice Fusion investigation
The U.S. Department of Justice was investigating Practice Fusion over allegations it violated HIPAA and anti-kickback laws and wrongfully obtained certification for its software from the HHS.
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We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
With great data comes great responsibility: New regulatory challenges for health tech
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.
Not texting in healthcare? Here’s why you should
A unified and secure communications platform can help providers stay compliant while enabling patients to exchange medical information through text or social media messaging, the preferred communications for most young people.
Tennessee-based medical imaging company will pay $3M HIPAA settlement
Touchstone Medical Imaging has agreed to pay $3 million to HHS' Office for Civil Rights to settle a breach that exposed more than 300,000 patients' protected health information.
San Francisco-based clinical data startup Verana Health expands into neurology
The 45-person company is focused on licensing real-world clinical databases from medical academies, organizing the data and building analytics tools to make the information useful to the pharmaceutical and medical device industry.
HealthVerity wants to enable healthcare’s big data future
Philadelphia-based health data management startup HealthVerity recently raised a $25 million Series C financing round led by Foresite Capital.