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Patients believe stronger privacy protections are more important than easier health data access
2020-01-27 05:00

Patients and consumers deserve better access to personalized, actionable health care information to empower them to make better, more informed decisions - but it should not drive up health care costs or compromise the privacy of their personal health data, according to a poll of patients and consumers from Morning Consult and America's Health Insurance Plans. A strong majority of patients want their data and privacy protected more than ever, even if it means foregoing easier health data access.

Health Data Security: Federal, State Trends for 2020
2019-12-31 08:19

While Congress is unlikely to pass major new national cybersecurity legislation in an election year, federal regulators and state attorneys general will be busy addressing evolving health data...

Tying Up Loose Ends for Health Data Privacy, Security
2019-12-23 20:03

What's Inside Appropriations Bill for HHS Efforts?As the year wraps up, regulators and legislators have been busy tying up some "loose ends" related to health data security and privacy before the...

5 Top Health Data Regulatory Issues to Watch in 2020
2019-12-20 15:04

What are some of the most important health data privacy and security regulatory developments to watch in 2020? Privacy attorney Kirk Nahra of the law firm WilmerHale discusses what he sees as the...

Crossix continues to expand its network of connected health data
2019-12-13 01:30

Crossix announced it has added several new data partners and sources as the company continues to expand its network of connected health data. Additional Rx and medical claims data will allow an...

Health Data Breach Tally: Trends in 2019
2019-12-11 20:18

Hacking Attacks, Business Associate Incidents Were CommonThe federal tally of health data breaches shows that hacking attacks and incidents involving business associates dominated this year....

2 Phishing-Related Health Data Breaches Grow Even Bigger
2019-12-04 21:18

Victim Tallies Climb as Breach Investigations ContinueInvestigations of two apparently unrelated phishing-related breaches that affected members of Presbyterian Health Plan have revealed the...

Health Data Breaches: 3 Lessons Learned
2019-11-29 07:33

Insights From Major Healthcare Sector Breaches and CyberattacksThe healthcare sector has had plenty of significant data breaches so far this year. What can be learned from organizations'...

2 Health Data Breaches Affect Total of 220,000
2019-11-22 20:18

Ransomware, Phishing Attacks Expose a Wealth of DataA California-based medical supply firm and a medical center in Missouri have reported health data breaches that each affected more than 100,000...

Google’s Plan to Crunch Health Data on Millions of Patients Draws Fire
2019-11-13 17:53

"Project Nightingale" is fully HIPAA-compliant, according to Google -- but researchers said they see big red flags for consumer data privacy.