Healthcare Law Insights blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

This marks the first update to the HIPAA Security Rule since 2013. From 2018-2023, OCR observed a 102% increase in breaches affecting 500 or more individuals, with 167 million affected in 2023 alone. These changes aim to address the steadily increasing risk of cyberattacks on critical healthcare infrastructure. population. [1]

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

MAY 17, 2024

An update to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule is now underway with new cybersecurity requirements. The latest data show a 93% increase in large breaches (from 369 to 712) reported from 2018 to 2022. HIPAA privacy requirements may be violated through data collection and its usage. “As

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S. According to the team’s analysis, Amazon is not yet active in AR/VR, med-tech/biotech, or insurance (but see more on that below via Mike McSherry’s observations). Longer-term, Mike could envision Amazon expanding into health insurance.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Over one-half of 213 retail chains listed in Internet Retailers top 1000 offered “buy online, pick up in store” fulfillment in 2018. Walmart, in particular, had a huge uptick in this during the 2018 holiday shopping season. Now consider a vision/optical insurance plan entering the retailing side of the business.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2018

The cost of a healthcare data breach is $408, nearly three-times the cross-industry average, revealed in the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study: Global Overview , from IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute. This 2018 report found the average cost of a data breach globally was $3.86 million, up 6.4%

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

consumers’ views on personalized medicine comes from a survey conducted for PMC, the Personalized Medicine Coalition, and GenomeWeb , published in May 2018. Most consumers believe that insurance companies “should” cover personalized tests and treatments. This picture of U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

patients were offered online access to their health records by providers or insurers, and one-half of them accessed the EHR at least once in the last year. 40, published April 2018. 40, published April 2018. Half of U.S. One in four of those offered online EHR access looked at them more than 3 times.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

That wand has begun to initiate its magic in the physician community, based on a wonderful essay in JAMA published 20 December 2018 titled, Social Determinants of Health in the Digital Age: Determining the Source Code for Nurture. need a new-and-improved HIPAA or more over-arching new national privacy law like a USGDPR? Does the U.S.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

Faster TimetoMarket In a health insurance policy management system project, a client achieved a fourmonth launch timeline by outsourcing development and QA to a dedicated vendor. This rapid turnaround was possible due to the vendors agile processes, continuous integration pipelines, and prebuilt compliance frameworks for HIPAA and GDPR.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. To that end, it is interesting to note that Amazon is seeking a privacy professional experienced with HIPAA.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

” The last paragraph of the press release states: “All work related to Ascension’s engagement with Google is HIPAA compliant and underpinned by a robust data security and protection effort and adherence to Ascension’s strict requirements for data handling.” health care.

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2023

Health plans under-perform on trust and personal health data, as only 2 in 5 of patients are comfortable sharing their medical records with their health insurers. The biggest drops in confidence between 2018 and 2021 occurred with peoples’ trust in Facebook, Amazon, and Google above other institutions.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 19, 2019

HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was legislated in 1996, isn’t sufficiently robust to deal with the nature of this health information 23 years after that law was first implemented. What did Ciitizen learn from this process? Deven McGraw is Ciitizen’s Chief Regulatory Officer. [In Boy, was I wrong.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sleep has been a key theme at CES, which I began to note in 2018 in this post on prescribing sleep for health at CES. Philips is also expanding tele-dentistry this year , being honored at CES 2021 for this program that connects consumers to dentists which has been especially useful in the COVID-19 pandemic. Sleep-as-medicine for all ages.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

If you are alarmed by the incessant stories about cybersecurity breaches, particularly those that have affected insurance companies, you may see this deal as a significant new danger for patients and their data. A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S. Give people’s data to a big insurer? How could you?”.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

The 5 biggest healthcare data breaches were all hacking incidents, with the largest data breach reported by the Texas health plan New Era Life Insurance Companies, involving the protected health information of 335,000 individuals. The former employee was arrested over the theft and card misuse and is facing criminal charges.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

.” I note that, by the time Americans voted in the 2018 mid-term elections, it was no surprise that lower-income Americans were highly concerned about paying higher premiums, most people earning over $75,000 a year were also very worried about covering the costs of health insurance. health care system , Gallup learned.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

We know that a top issue driving American voters to the 2018 mid-term polls was health care, in at least two dimensions: direct costs to the voters (as patients and taxpayers); and, personal and collective concerns about losing coverage due to pre-existing conditions. So much of these data flows aren’t covered by HIPAA.

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