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The New Health Privacy Landscape—Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire

From Perkins Coie, by Stephanie Duchesneau, Susan Fahringer, Meredith Halama, Janis Kestenbaum: The legal landscape around health privacy has become much more complex in recent years, with more entities and types of data now subject to regulation and enforcement. The FTC has taken a broader view of what constitutes sensitive health data and has pursued […]

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Patient Privacy: Preventing Data Leakage in Healthcare

From Security Boulevard, by Chantel Rodrigues: Tracking pixels are tiny, invisible images or code snippets embedded in web pages, emails, or mobile apps. They can be used for legitimate purposes, such as monitoring website traffic, measuring user engagement, and improving user experience. They can also lead to data leakage and privacy breaches, which can constitute […]

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Healthcare AI and HIPAA Compliance

From AI in Healthcare by Dave Pearson: AI can accumulate a large amount of data from many sources. Using large datasets, AI can realistically re-identify previously de-identified healthcare data. Under the HIPAA de-identification safe harbor, even if you remove the 18 specific identifiers, you cannot have actual knowledge that the information could be used alone […]