data privacy
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Integral Snags $7M In Seed Funding for Its Healthcare Data Privacy Platform
Integral raked in $6.9 million in seed funding in this week. The San Francisco-based startup is developing technology that seeks to speed up the process of exchanging sensitive health data while still maintaining robust privacy protection.
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Average Healthcare Data Breach Cost Reaches Nearly $11M
The average cost of a healthcare data breach is now $10.93 million, up from $10.10 million in 2022, according to a new report. Healthcare has the highest data breach costs of all industries — breaches are second costliest in the financial sector, where the average cost is $5.9 million.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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How Can Providers Avoid Data Breaches?
To prevent the proliferation of data security incidents in the healthcare industry, providers must examine their use of legacy systems as well as their reliance on third parties, according to a new report. It pointed out that most providers fail to probe their third-party partners’ cybersecurity measures, and many continue to use legacy systems that are no longer supported by vendors or are hard to patch and update.
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How the EU’s New Data Laws Could Affect American Health Tech Companies
In the EU, there is a widespread distrust of American tech companies, according to a recent conference presentation by an international healthcare lawyer. Because of this, the EU has established a number of new laws protecting its citizens’ data privacy and creating frameworks for the secure exchange of information — laws that American health tech companies will have to comply with if they do business in the EU.
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Cerebral Admits That it Wrongly Shared Data of 3.1M Users
Cerebral recently notified 3.1 million of its users that their private health information was shared with tech companies like Meta, Google and TikTok. The data breach stemmed from Cerebral’s use of pixel tracking technology, which the company said has been discontinued or reconfigured.
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Lawmakers Are Cracking Down on Companies Using Health Data for Advertising
Three senators recently introduced legislation that would ban the use of health data for advertising and marketing purposes. The proposed legislation comes amid media reports claiming that data brokers are selling social media companies patients’ location data, as well as reports that hospitals and digital health startups are collecting patients’ online data and sharing it with tech giants such as Facebook and Google.
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What Should Tech Companies do to Navigate Privacy Concerns in Post-Dobbs Era?
Patient privacy is evolving rapidly in the post-Dobbs era, according to healthcare and life science lawyers in a webinar hosted by the American Bar Association on Wednesday.
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Patient Files Class-action Suit Against Advocate Aurora Health Following Data Breach
The patient is alleging that the patient portal he used to communicate with his doctors at Advocate Aurora and to schedule appointments used a pixelated code that also enabled logging in via Facebook and then shared data with Facebook.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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FTC accuses data company of tracking visits to reproductive health clinics
Kochava allegedly sold geolocation data from hundreds of millions of cell phones that showed people’s visits to reproductive health clinics, places of worship, homeless and domestic violence shelters and addiction recovery facilities.
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Health IT, MedCity Influencers
How healthcare organizations can find a balance between personalization, data privacy and HIPAA compliance
Here are three considerations for ways HIPAA can navigate the intersection between personalization and data privacy while meeting regulatory requirements.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
As healthcare moves online, providers must step up security practices
As data breaches increase in size, and as large organizations demonstrate their willingness to pay ransom, it only becomes a matter of time before more healthcare organizations are the subject of a coordinated attack.
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The need for privacy in vaccine passport policies
Let’s be careful and deliberate about what we decide to do with vaccine passports. Considerable consequences to individual freedoms – as well as both societal and public health – are at stake.
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MedCity Influencers, Community
To reopen our economy, digital proof of vaccination is a game-changer
Vaccine credential apps can expedite our return to normal life. After a free download, they retrieve the user’s official vaccine record from a trusted registry or healthcare provider and generate a digital vaccine card that is securely stored on their smart phone.
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Amazon Care and privacy: A host of unknowns
If HIPAA does not apply to Amazon Care, then absent another privacy regulation applying, avoiding exploitation of the data relies on the good faith of the entity operating the service.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
