Privacy
08.02.21
07.20.21
More than decade-long snooping of patient records finally...
The Aultman Health Foundation (Aultman), an Ohio-based health system with more than 7,000 employees, announced that the patient records of more than 7,000 patients may have been accessed by an employee without authorization for whom such access was outside their job duties.
Category Privacy
07.16.21
Bipartisanship is back in Congress…at least with respect to...
After a number of recent headline-grabbing ransomware attacks, both the U.S. House and Senate are working on cybersecurity bills, with cross-aisle support, and progressing much better and faster than Congress's other bill-making efforts.
Category Cybersecurity
07.16.21
Can genetic information be sold?
A recent Illinois lawsuit claims The Blackstone Group violated an Illinois privacy law when they obtained thousands if not millions of individuals' genetic information when they acquired Ancestry.com.
Category Privacy
07.16.21
HHS OIG review calls out CMS’s lack of cybersecurity oversight
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently conducted a review of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) survey standards for hospital cybersecurity and determined that CMS lacks consistent oversight of networked-devices cybersecurity in hospitals.
Category Cybersecurity
07.15.21
The Nigerian Prince has been swallowed by a whale: Phishing...
A successful ransomware attack occurs every eight minutes. Since phishing is one of the primary methods of launching ransomware attacks companies need to continue educating and training their employees to be vigilant.
Category Cybersecurity
07.15.21
GUESS works to address data breach
Fashion retailer GUESS announced a data breach that has affected an unknown number of people, whose information was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to the company's systems back in February 2021.
Category Cybersecurity
07.14.21
What your business needs to know about the new Colorado Privacy...
Colorado became the third state in the U.S. to adopt its own set of comprehensive privacy laws, known as the Colorado Privacy Act aimed at protecting the use and sale of its residents’ personal and sensitive data. This blog post provides a high level summary and key takeaways regarding the new regulations.
Category Privacy
07.14.21
The WHO’s principled Ethics and Governance of Artificial...
The World Health Organization recently published its guidance on Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health
Category Artificial Intelligence
