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Amazon Clinic may delay its nationwide telehealth launch

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Warren and Welch asked Amazon executives earlier this month about patient health data privacy and expressed concerns that the platform’s new healthcare service is putting users’ private health data at risk. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Meta Faces Legal Firestorm As Hospitals Cite Its Pixel Tool In Health Data Breaches

Healthcare IT Today

The health system recently found that Pixel might have transmitted data entered in MyChart back to Facebook. WakeMed’s leaders reported that they weren’t sure whether sensitive patient data got sent to Facebook, but nonetheless disabled the tool in May 2022.

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American Telemedicine Association Leaps Into Privacy and AI Policies

Healthcare IT Today

This is a huge set of tasks, yet at the ATA’s annual policy meeting at the end of 2022, it added a data policy workgroup to its activities. Zebley describes the formation of the data policy workgroup as an organic development. HIPAA was last revised in 2013.

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The Evolution of Patient Communication: Trends and Technologies

Healthcare IT Today

The American Medical Association found that in 2022, over 75% of patients expressed concern about protecting the privacy of personal health data. Ensure that all touch points comply with HIPAA, especially for those using biometric sensors. So, it’s essential providers have a secure system to manage it.

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Why HHS’ Cybersecurity Concept Paper Falls Short for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

In an era where the HHS itself notes a 93% increase in large healthcare data breaches from 2018 to 2022, as well as a 278% increase in those that involve ransomware, suggesting “voluntary cybersecurity goals” is akin to applying a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

The US Senate heard the weak excuses of the United Healthcare CEO who admitted Change Healthcare had not secured its Citrix systems with multifactor authentication (MFA) even though they had a written policy to do so, and that they failed to notify data breach victims by the HIPAA and state data breach law deadlines.

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Integral Secures $6.9 Million Seed Round Led by Haystack to Maximize Data Privacy and Quality

Healthcare IT Today

million seed round to protect sensitive health data and provide automated expert certification software that enables health and life sciences companies access to compliant, rich, de-identified data in hours, rather than months.