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With the abysmal state of healthcare in this country, it shouldn’t be surprising that tech companies—specifically those in the app space—have swooped in left and right to solve the ills that the federal government can’t or won’t. Want to monitor your blood pressure? There’s an app for that. Mental health got you down? …
The University of Chicago, its medical center and Google were sued in a potential class-action lawsuit accusing the hospital of sharing hundreds of thousands of patient records with the tech giant that retained identifiable date stamps and doctors' notes.
A couple of years ago, Google teamed up with the University of Chicago Medicine to improve prediction in healthcare, which could help prevent complications and save lives.
The lawsuit demonstrates the tension between building A.I. systems and protecting the privacy of patients.
In December 2018, Pagosa Springs Medical Center settled potential Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rule
Advances in artificial intelligence, including activity trackers, smartphones and smartwatches, threaten the privacy of people's health data, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley.
In 2009, Congress asked for recommendations on what to do about information that falls outside the privacy law known as HIPAA. Today, health officials released their report, but offered no suggestions.
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced a significant settlement with Catholic Health Care Services of the Archdiocese of Philade
This easy-to-understand resource is a part of CDT's work to help startups make smart decisions and better understand the legislative landscape around managing user data.
As healthcare organizations continue to collect more and more patient data across the spectrum of care, there is a rapidly growing need to access and use this t
Medical privacy is a high-stakes game, in both human and financial terms, given the multibillion-dollar market for anonymized medical data — but existing legal protections are full of holes.
If it isn’t a panacea, de-identification remains a critical part of every privacy pro’s toolbox. At a workshop earlier this month, the Future of Privacy Forum
Internet-based file-sharing services such as Dropbox and Google Drive can be easy and convenient to use, whether via the touch of an app on a mobile
The Internet was abuzz Wednesday evening after ESPN pro football reporter Adam Schefter tweeted a photo of a medical record supposedly showing that New York Giants player Jason Pierre-Paul had had a finger amputated.
Infographic created by TrueVault illustrates the rise of HIPAA violations providing a picture of the regulatory landscape along with the type of complaints
A former South Carolina state employee who pleaded guilty to five felony charges after he sent personal information about more than 228,000 Medicaid recipients to
HIPAA Compliance: The HIPAA Survival Guide is a plain English guide to HIPAA Compliance and the HITECH Act.
This page provides guidance about methods and approaches to achieve de-identification in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. The guidance explains and answers questions regarding the two methods that can be used to satisfy the Privacy Rule’s de-identification standard: Expert Determination and Safe Harbor . This guidance is intended to assist covered entities to understand what is de-identification, the general process by which de-identified information is created, and the options available for performing de-identification.