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The Federal Trade Commission Accuses GoodRx Of Multiple Data Sharing Fails, Demands It Pay $1.5 Million Fine and Make Reforms

Healthcare IT Today

The Federal Trade Commission has cited telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx for sharing sensitive consumer health data with several advertising platforms, in violation of its own privacy promises to consumers. The agency has filed a proposed order demanding that GoodRx pay $1.5 including Facebook and Google.

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Ransomware Preparedness in Healthcare – Are you Doing the Basics?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Chad Peterson, Managing Director at NetSPI As ransomware attacks become more sophisticated, healthcare organizations have become desirable targets due to the valuable data shared across medical records and the constant need for service availability.

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A Look at HIEs and 2 Perspectives for Data Exchange

Healthcare IT Today

In response to this tweet by Kristen Valdes during the SHIEC 2021 conference happening this week in Arizona, Brendan Keeler offered this really important look into healthcare data exchange and HIEs.

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The future of telehealth: informatics, scalability and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Philips Future Health Index 2021 Report , which surveyed nearly 3,000 healthcare leaders across 14 countries, found that healthcare leaders expect an average of 23% of routine care to take place outside of the hospital walls within three years.

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The Ever Evolving World of Cybersecurity Threats

Healthcare IT Today

As a result, health data is creeping into cloud-based tools where it becomes exposed to very new and very real security threats – some of which healthcare organizations have never had to deal with before. In January 2021, HHS’s Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP) rule was signed into law.

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Google Care Studio: Creating a Longitudinal Health Record

Lloyd Price

Google Care Studio emerged from the company's healthcare initiatives, which began in the early 2000s with the development of Google Health, a personal health record platform. Over time, Google expanded its focus on healthcare data and analytics, leading to the introduction of Care Studio in 2021.

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Using AI Responsibly and Ethically in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Will healthcare organizations sacrifice data privacy as they implement and rely more on AI? In 2021, healthcare data breaches impacted 45 million people. The Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) Office for Civil Rights received reports of 63 breaches of 500+ records in September 2022. increase from 2021.