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Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), healthcare providers, including mental health professionals, must use their professional judgment when notifying a patient's family of their psychiatric hold.
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Kirsten Peremore: Feb 25, 2025 5:24:45 PM
HIPAA’s nondiscrimination provisions prohibit group health plans and group health insurance issuers from discriminating against individuals when it...
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Farah Amod: Feb 25, 2025 5:18:25 PM
In 2024, cyberattacks on healthcare organizations reached record levels, exposing millions of patient records and disrupting medical services. These...
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Kirsten Peremore: Feb 25, 2025 4:19:24 PM
According to a study published in Forbes, “The name blockchain is hardly accidental: The digital ledger is often described as a “chain” that’s made...
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The notorious CL0P ransomware group launched a new wave of attacks in early 2025, exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities to target telecommunications...
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Tshedimoso Makhene: Feb 25, 2025 3:36:05 PM
In August 2024, an exposed database belonging to Confidant Health revealed 5.3 terabytes of sensitive health data, including confidential therapy...
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Healthcare organizations have long operated under HIPAA's privacy rules, but Washington state's new My Health My Data Act (MHMD) represents a...
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Tshedimoso Makhene: Feb 25, 2025 12:53:23 PM
Saying someone passed away can be a HIPAA violation, but it depends on who is making the statement, who the statement is made to, and what other...
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Farah Amod: Feb 25, 2025 12:34:07 PM
According to Forbes, “A clickjacking hack attack,simply explained, is one that employs various methods to get users clicking on invisible or...
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A class action lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court alleges Amazon secretly tracked and sold sensitive consumer data through mobile apps,...
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Based on our research, Faxage is HIPAA compliant because it meets the requirements set by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to...
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened a civil fraud investigation into UnitedHealthcare, focusing on whether the company is unlawfully...
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Farah Amod: Feb 25, 2025 7:06:30 AM
Russia’s ‘BadPilot’ cyber campaign, linked to state-sponsored hackers, is targeting critical infrastructure worldwide, using sophisticated tactics to...
