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Data Privacy
Researchers Observe Increase in Emerging Ransomware Groups Targeting Healthcare
From HealthIT Security, by Jill McKeon: The healthcare sector experienced significant data breaches in 2023, with over 540 organizations reporting such incidents, largely due to ransomware…
HHS Releases Voluntary Cybersecurity Performance Goals to Beef Up Healthcare’s Digital Defenses
From Fierce Healthcare, by Dave Mulio: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published voluntary cybersecurity performance goals for healthcare organizations, aiming to enhance…
New California Law Imposes Significant Data Management Requirements for Sensitive Health Data
From Troutman Pepper, by Brent Hoard, Emma Trivax, and Erin Whaley: Effective January 1, AB 352 introduces significant changes to the management and sharing of sensitive…
What Do Threads, Mastodon, and Hospital Records Have in Common?
From Ars Technica, by Fintan Burke: The concept of “federated learning”, inspired by the privacy-focused structure of new social media platforms, is being adopted by medical…
Is Stripe HIPAA Compliant?
From The HIPAA Journal, by Steve Adler: Stripe’s Non-HIPAA Compliance: Despite being compliant with various US and international data privacy regulations, Stripe is not HIPAA compliant.…
The Most Critical Elements of the FTC’s Health Breach Rulemaking
From Lawfare, by Justin Sherman and Devan Desai, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is considering modifications to its Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR), which governs how…
OCR Doubles Down: Two Settlements in Two Months for Two Common Cybersecurity Issues
From Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, by Ike Willett & Cory Brennan: On December 7, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for…
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,…
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…
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…