14 May, 2024 Federal Cyber Standards Coming to a Hospital Near You? By Mitzi Hill The White House is set to require baseline cybersecurity standards for hospitals, according to news reports in mid-May. The move is a...
09 May, 2024 Paging: I, (Dr.) Robot? By Mitzi Hill Attached is a very interesting article about efforts at Johns Hopkins to use AI in conjunction with EHR and patient communication tasks....
02 May, 2024 CISA To Propose Cyber Incident Reporting Rules that Will Affect Healthcare By Mitzi Hill The country's cyber watchdog regulatory agency, CISA, plans to conduct a rule-making regarding proposed cyber incident reporting rules...
25 Apr, 2024 FTC Order Likely to Prohibit Healthcare Tech Company From Using Customer Data for Machine Learning By Mitzi Hill The Federal Trade Commission has been on a mission to regulate healthcare privacy in various ways. Now, we have signs that it is also...
23 Apr, 2024 Payment Platform Breach Could Cost United More than $1B By Mitzi Hill A healthcare payment processing platform owned by United Healthcare suffered a crippling attack in February that left many small...
09 Apr, 2024 Home Healthcare Causes Cyber Attack Worries By Mitzi Hill A federal working group that studies cyber issues as part of the Department of Homeland Security warns that telehealth and in-home health...
04 Apr, 2024 Health Data Privacy Laws: The Newest State Frontier By Mitzi Hill As data privacy regulation spreads across the US, state legislators are looking at increasingly specialized areas of data privacy. The...
28 Mar, 2024 Utah Bill Would Add AI Regulations to its Consumer Protection Law By Mitzi Hill The Utah legislature has passed a bill that would hold companies liable for consumer protection/fair trade violations for misleading use...
26 Mar, 2024 Feds to Investigate Hack of Healthcare Payment/Claims Processing Platform By Mitzi Hill In mid-March, the regulator responsible for privacy in healthcare announced that it will investigate a ransomware incident that took down...
14 Mar, 2024 Data Broker in Bankruptcy is Prohibited from Selling "Sensitive" Location Data Unless Buyer Promises to Treat Data Carefully By Mitzi Hill Data broker Near, an India-based company, has gone into bankruptcy seven months after a splashy IPO. Touting that it held data about 1.6...
24 Oct, 2023 SCOTUS to Hear First Amendment Case Stemming from Government Efforts to Manage Misinformation on Social Media By Mitzi Hill The Supreme Court has voted 6-3 to hear a First Amendment case brought by two states and several officials relating to the federal...
09 Oct, 2023 When Do Employers Have to Offer Employee Health Coverage? Some Employers Pay Either Way By Brandie Barrows With healthcare costs predicted to rise sharply in 2024, some employers who don’t offer employees health coverage may be celebrating too...