Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 25, 2023

With the aim of bringing a "privacy-first" approach to healthcare marketing, WebMD Ignite, a division of WebMD and Internet Brands, is teaming up with privacy platform Freshpaint to help healthcare organizations stay in compliance with privacy regulations.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 15, 2023

The agency cited its need to take on bigger and more complex cases in areas like health privacy in its request on Tuesday for a $160 million funding boost.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 21, 2023

Federal regulators are warning hospital systems and telehealth providers about the data privacy risks of using third-party tracking technologies.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 6, 2023

Facebook parent company Meta this week was fined 390 million euros, or more than $414 million, by European Union regulators in a major decision around its online ad targeting and privacy policies. The decision regarding a separate complaint of privacy violations on WhatsApp has been delayed until later in the month.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

HIPAA governs how protected health information may be used and disclosed by covered entities - including certain providers, plans - and certain business associates/vendors, and it also provides certain requirements related to the privacy and security of data, as well as individual rights. privacy law – HIPAA, HITECH, CCPA, etc.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 12, 2023

SXSW 2023: Data privacy, healthcare websites new battleground over reproductive rights hlandi Sun, 03/12/2023 - 13:39

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The company, which has a dominant market share with 48 million monthly users and has faced regulatory scrutiny over privacy in the past, originally pledged to release the mode shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

And so we want to help them deter themselves from ruining their careers and breaching the privacy of others." It might be a mass murderer who's been arrested and shot and is now in your emergency department," Liederman said. "These are just human beings who get tempted.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The California Consumer Privacy Act, passed in 2018, aims to give consumers more control over their online personal information. After interviewing 19 digital privacy and information system experts, researchers found that professionals perceived legal and technological challenges for healthcare organizations in complying with CCPA.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

State attorneys general call on Apple to beef up privacy protections for reproductive health information. Tue, 11/22/2022 - 12:32.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 22, 2023

For companies entrusted with managing and protecting patients’ personal information, ensuring the privacy of that data must be the highest priority. This approach aligns with the principle of data minimization, a key aspect of privacy regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and HIPAA.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 27, 2023

ViVE 2023: Hospitals, health tech companies face shortages in data privacy, security talent. Recruiting 'outsiders' could be one fix dmuoio Tue, 03/28/2023 - 00:26

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 31, 2023

BENTONVILLE, Arkansas—Walmart investors voted Wednesday to reject a push from some company shareholders to conduct an independent study on consumers' data privacy and reproductive rights. Walmart investors voted Wednesday to reject a push from some company shareholders to conduct an independent study on abortion data privacy.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 18, 2023

FTC steps up scrutiny of digital health apps with proposed changes to data privacy rule hlandi Thu, 05/18/2023 - 16:28

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The consequences of such breaches can be devastating, not only jeopardizing patient privacy but also eroding trust in healthcare systems. The sheer volume of data, coupled with evolving privacy laws, makes organizations more susceptible to regulatory violations.

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Bill Of Health

AUGUST 10, 2023

By Christi Guerrini, David Gurney, Steve Kramer, CeCe Moore, Margaret Press, and Amy McGuire State legislators have enacted a flurry of genetic privacy bills that will strengthen the privacy and security practices of direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies and give customers more control over their data. Although U.S.

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The Rand Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Until privacy protection laws are cemented into place, consumer privacy won't be assured unless consumers can effectively take the steps they need to take to protect their data. Tech companies might view this as a burden, but there will likely be profits for those companies that instead see it as an opportunity.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Data privacy solution TripleBlind secures $24M backed by General Catalyst, Mayo Clinic. Wed, 10/20/2021 - 09:22.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2024

A new statistical analysis of 90 distinct hospital websites, drawn from a nationally representative sample of 100 community hospitals, finds that those providers – when they had privacy policies available for consumption – were inadequate in how they accurately disclosed the use of third-party tracking technologies to consumers.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Amid growing concern about data privacy, Invitae shines spotlight on how it uses de-identified health data. Wed, 12/07/2022 - 18:35.

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Health IT Analytics

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Researchers have demonstrated that a locally run large language model may be useful for extracting data from text-based radiology reports while safeguarding privacy.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Some of the recommendations acknowledged the potential complications and privacy concerns around providing children care, particularly when it comes to potentially sensitive health data. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released updated recommendations this past year for pediatric health IT.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 4, 2022

Real-world evidence firm Aetion grabs privacy-protected synthetic data provider Replica Analytics. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 14:54.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Today, WebMD Ignite , a full-service growth partner for organizations across the healthcare industry, announced a strategic partnership with Freshpaint , a healthcare privacy platform that allows healthcare providers to continue doing high-performance marketing while protecting patient privacy.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – A new examination of patient perspectives on health data privacy illustrates unresolved tension over the eroding security and confidentiality of personal health information in a wired society and economy. Privacy and Health Information Accessibility. This concern is magnified with the U.S.

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Bill Of Health

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The following post is adapted from the edited volume AI in eHealth: Human Autonomy, Data Governance and Privacy in Healthcare. To learn more about these and related issues, you may read our new volume on AI in eHealth: Human Autonomy, Data Governance and Privacy in Healthcare published by Cambridge University Press.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 26, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized a rule Friday that aims to tighten the reins on digital health apps sharing consumers' sensitive medical data with tech companies. | The FTC finalized a rule Friday that aims to tighten the reins on digital health apps sharing consumers' sensitive medical data with tech companies.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 5, 2022

In an increasingly murky legal environment, providers should focus on minimizing and protecting the data they collect, while keeping abreast of shifting abortion legality in their state, experts said.

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Sheppard Health Law

MARCH 8, 2023

With these changes, the growing publicity surrounding ChatGPT, and the expected growth of artificial intelligence in the healthcare industry, entities and individuals in the healthcare industry will need to carefully consider and evaluate their use of ChatGPT to ensure their compliance with applicable privacy laws.

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Etactics

AUGUST 4, 2023

HIPAA is a federal regulation that protects the privacy and security of PHI. Why, through the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules of course! For example, the HIPAA Privacy Rule covers PHI in any medium. More specifically, the Security & Privacy Rules. Table of Contents What is PHI & ePHI? Establishes civil penalties.

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Triage Health Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Data privacy regulation in Singapore Whilst the PDPA was first introduced in Singapore in 2012, the law was significantly amended in 2020, with key changes made to implement: Brand new legal bases for processing personal data, including for the legitimate interests or for a ‘business improvement’ purpose of the controller organisation.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 26, 2022

The medical group said it fears that patients' digital data is being shared in violation of HIPAA protections.

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Bill Of Health

JANUARY 5, 2023

The past may hold important lessons for our uncertain future of health privacy for patients, physicians, and hospitals in the face of abortion subpoenas post- Dobbs. . Calling for the withdrawal of the subpoenas, the letter accused the Justice Department of “unwarranted abuse of federal power” and “abusive intrusion into women’s privacy.”

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Bill Of Health

AUGUST 18, 2021

These apps provide a window into some of the key issues in the world of digital health — including data privacy, data access, data ownership, bias, and the regulation of health technology. This first installment of responses looks at data privacy concerns. This could change in two ways.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 12, 2024

Nearly all hospitals’ websites collect and transmit user information to third parties, yet most do not have privacy policies that tell the visitors who exactly will be receiving those data, accordi | A recent study warns that many hospitals' user tracking and disclosure practices could open their organizations up to lawsuits.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Privacy remains a concern for one-half of people over 50 who are not confident in online privacy assurance when using a wireless device. The proportion of people “very confident” in privacy assurance using wireless tech is quite low, ranging between 12% and 15% among the older age cohorts. But are we asking too much of U.S.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Data accessibility has long been an issue in healthcare because of state and national data privacy laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Intel’s federated learning hardware and software comply with data privacy concerns and preserve data integrity, privacy and security through confidential computing.

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