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FTC Strengthens Health Data Breach Notification Rule to Protect Consumers

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What You Should Know: – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized significant changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) , aiming to improve consumer protection in the digital age. This ensures these platforms are held accountable for safeguarding health data.

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Patient concerns in healthcare digitalisation: Rising inequalities

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Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, individual healthcare providers offer their own patient portals. This means if a person visits multiple facilities, they must use different portals to access their health data.

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Report confirms racial disparities in patient access to their health data

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Information-blocking rules now in effect have expanded the variety and types of data healthcare organizations are subject to under the 21st Century Cures Act, and there are still a lot of misconceptions about requirements and how to comply. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. ON THE RECORD. Email: afox@himss.org.

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Why The Time Is Now for Healthcare Provider Cloud Migration

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Rick Froehlich, President and Chief Executive Officer at ClearDATA It’s no secret that healthcare is a slow-moving industry. Once data is shifted, the real trick is keeping it all secure, especially for data that’s more sensitive, as is typically seen in the healthcare industry.

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The Future of Human Health May Require Unlocking Access to Our Health Data

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Cambron Carter, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Pearl The synergy of artificial intelligence (AI) and medical imaging has opened new horizons for healthcare. In healthcare, the stakes are high–higher, arguably, than in any other areas of AI deployment. In medicine – as opposed to, say, advertising – data is a public good.

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Microsoft releases data-driven updates for healthcare cloud

Healthcare It News

Microsoft this week unveiled new capabilities to help solve some common roadblocks to enhancing patient engagement and effective health team collaboration, and to help support healthcare organizations more easily leveraging their enterprise data warehousing to fuel clinical and operational analytics. WHY IT MATTERS.

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UHG says it's rebuilding Change Healthcare with cloud-based security

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UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty testified on May 1 before both the House and Senate about the seismic February 21 cyberattack of UHG subsidiary Change Healthcare, which was infiltrated by the ALPHV ransomware gang. His testimony offered a glimpse into the technical side of the attack and, and UHG's incident response.