Contract Enforcements Tie Cybersecurity to Financial Fraud and Liability The receptionist you yelled at for shopping online could turn you in and get a...
HIPAA Compliance
As ransomware inundates healthcare organizations, everyone is trying to figure out how they can prepare their healthcare organization for these ongoing attacks...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a consumer fraud settlement against a company that displayed a ‘HIPAA Compliant’ seal on its website. After a data...
Apple and Google have announced that they’ll work together to help governments and health agencies trace contacts made by people who have contracted the COVID...
Earlier this month, I wrote a blog item laying out some of the problems Epic is facing in getting its clients to share de-identified patient data among...
The University of Chicago, its medical center and Google have been hit with a lawsuit contending that the hospital shared hundreds of thousands of patient...
When Microsoft ends support you will be unsecure and non-compliant Time is running out. And you probably don’t have the resources you need. Microsoft is ending...
A group providing hospitalist physicians on contract has learned the hard way that sharing PHI with vendors is a no-no unless the vendor has signed a business...
These days, it’s pretty much a given that providers will store some or all of their data in the cloud, i.e. off-site on a vendor’s servers. For many...
Editor’s Note: We’d like to welcome Mike Semel as the latest addition to the Healthcare Scene blog team. We’ve been working with Mike for...