Privacy & Security

Healthcare patient at home desk with laptop
By Neil Versel 12:19 pm November 06, 2023
In a complaint filed in federal court in Texas, the hospital group says enforcement of the Office for Civil Rights' regs on pixel tracking tools would disrupt the "balance that HIPAA and its regulations strike between privacy and information-sharing."
A doctor accessing a patient file on a desktop computer
By Adam Ang 05:47 am November 03, 2023
Also, Te Whatu Ora is consolidating the costing systems across New Zealand's South Island.
Healthcare worker using laptop next to medical equipment
By Jeff Lagasse 01:39 pm November 02, 2023
Doctors' Management Services failed to determine the potential risks and vulnerabilities in the breach, HHS says.
Sentara Health on cloud computing
By Bill Siwicki 12:51 pm November 02, 2023
That's an approximately 30% decrease in data center cost, coming from reductions in labor costs, software maintenance, data center equipment and maintenance, and utilities. Further, the cloud migration has boosted the recovery posture.
Gavel lies on a table in front of a legal pad
By Andrea Fox 06:44 pm November 01, 2023
While the agreement is not an admission of liability, Doctors’ Management Services has agreed to pay a penalty of $100,000 and be subject to HIPAA-compliance monitoring by OCR for three years.
Blue lock appears over motherboard
By Andrea Fox 09:46 am October 31, 2023
Threat actors could execute on a remote code execution vulnerability in Mirth Connect, a cross-platform communications tool, to gain access and compromise data, according to the NIST national vulnerability database.
Healthcare worker looking at multiple monitors
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By 06:00 am October 31, 2023
Healthcare organizations should build cyber resiliency to better manage future targeted ransomware attacks.
Eli Levin, who works on economic affairs and innovation for the Consulate General of Israel to New England
By Jessica Hagen 04:33 pm October 30, 2023
Eli Levin, who works on economic affairs and innovation for the Consulate General of Israel to New England, discusses how the war in Israel has affected digital health and technology.
U.S. President Joe Biden issues executive order on AI safety
By Mike Miliard 09:52 am October 30, 2023
The White House plan for "safe, secure and trustworthy" artificial intelligence wants the Department of Health and Human Services to have a mechanism in place to collect reports of "harms or unsafe healthcare practices," and act to remedy them.
A pharmacist doing an inventory using a digital tablet.
By Shane Maher, Intelliworx 05:58 am October 30, 2023
Risks run high as the healthcare industry in Australia is increasingly becoming more data-reliant amid growing consumerisation, says managed service and cloud solutions provider Intelliworx.