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

Healthcare IT Today

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. In August, Meta was hit with a second class action lawsuit citing UCSF Medical Center and Dignity Health as co-defendants.

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DirectTrust and EHNAC Announce Merger Agreement

Healthcare IT Today

DirectTrust and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) today announced an agreement to merge EHNAC with and into DirectTrust, effective January 4, 2023. DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information.

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Language Barriers: Protecting Your Organization From A Hidden HIPAA Threat

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.

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Virtual Care – negotiating barriers to adoption offers glimpses of an exciting future

Lloyd Price

It will have immediate potential to reduce the backlog of almost eight million operations, but it is also a template for healthcare systems struggling to cope with increased pressures, diminishing budgets and dawdling processes.

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COVID-19: Lessons from Thailand’s BIDI & Samitivej Group of Hospitals

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With limited knowledge and information about COVID-19, the initial challenges in handling the rising number of COVID-19 include: Clinical practice guidelines that were changing frequently. ” Looking at the WHO ITU e-Health governance, standards and interoperability are the fundamentals of applications and services.

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Emerging trends in the European HealthTech M&A market 2023

Lloyd Price

This growth is expected to create opportunities for M&A activity, as pharmaceutical companies look to acquire smaller, innovative biotech companies. Consolidation of the healthcare industry: The healthcare industry is consolidating, as larger companies acquire smaller ones in order to gain market share and scale.

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10 Key Medtech Themes for 2023

Henry Kotula

Private equity firms, healthcare-focused funds and other financial sponsors have continued to display a strong appetite for investing in Medtech companies, with top targets in subsectors such as diagnostics and healthcare IT solutions. Growing importance of data privacy and security. More active engagement with FDA/EMA/MHRA.