Apple and Google have announced that they’ll work together to help governments and health agencies trace contacts made by people who have contracted the COVID...
HHS Office for Civil Rights
Amazon has quietly struck a data-sharing deal with England’s National Health Service giving it free access to a range of health data from British consumers...
Patient data has always been in demand, particularly among pharmas and medical research organizations that need it to do their daily business. However, a new...
In recent times, tech giants like Apple, Google and Amazon have made it clear that their sights are set on carving out a place in healthcare. (Yes, the latest...
For the second time this month, the HHS Office for Civil Rights has fined a provider for failing to make a patient’s medical records available to them promptly...
In yet another sign that the agency is taking a tougher enforcement stance, Sentara Hospitals has agreed to pay $2.2 million to the HHS Office for Civil Rights...
It’s bad enough that hospital data breaches are so common. What’s worse is that the bulk of those breaches apparently disclose sensitive data which could help...
As I’ve noted before, it’s harder for patients to access their medical records then you might think. While providers are bound by both HIPAA and state laws on...
For most patients, a data breach is a data breach. While it may make a big difference to a healthcare organization whether the source of a security...
As most readers know, last year was a pretty lousy one for healthcare data security. For one thing, there was the spectacular attack on health insurer Anthem...