America’s largest hospital lobbying group says Congress should pressure health regulators into retracting a warning sent to medical providers advising that online trackers embedded into patient portals could violate medical privacy law. The American Hospital Association took a request from Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., for ideas on how to improve HIPAA as an opportunity to […]
Any healthcare organization that embeds tracking technologies in its website should carefully review whether it is inadvertently violating HIPAA or other federal regulations, said Nick Heesters, senior adviser for cybersecurity at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. Over the last few months and weeks, HHS OCR and the Federal Trade […]
The drumbeat for potential federal legislation to better protect sensitive health information – or at least or new regulations – appears to be growing louder in Congress. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., ranking member of the Senate committee on health, education, labor and pension, is seeking input from healthcare industry stakeholders on ways to improve the […]
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