The first major update to HIPAA in more than a decade will eliminate the distinction between “required” and “addressable” safeguards, making key cybersecurity and physical security measures mandatory for all healthcare providers. This shift will expose gaps in hospitals’ fragmented security systems, though, according to Kumar Sokka, CEO of cybersecurity platform Acre Security.

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As hospitals adapt to a landscape marked by staffing shortages, financial pressure and escalating safety concerns, security can no longer operate as an afterthought or a cost center. It must be a strategic enabler that protects the workforce, which in turn protects everyone else.

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Zoom recently reached an $85 million settlement agreement for a lawsuit alleging the company shared users’ data and misrepresented encryption claims. It should be a lesson for the industry that health data cannot be used with disregard, a security expert said. 

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Most apps offering opioid use disorder treatment have access to sensitive identifying information of their users, according to an analysis of 10 of them.

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Providers are the most common targets for cyber criminals attacking the healthcare industry, and now, two major health systems have added their names to the list of recent data breach victims. The recently divulged information breaches affected 255,000 individuals.

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The program is open to early-stage health tech and fintech startups that are pre-Series A, less than five years old and have less than $1 million in revenue. The application deadline is 5 PM PT on July 31, 2019.

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Scheduling appointments, viewing lab results and requesting prescriptions emerged as the top three functions patients use mobile apps for, according to a SOTI survey of 552 U.S. consumers.

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U.S. Venture Partners led the startup’s Series A round, and YL Ventures and Blumberg Capital also participated.

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The new report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology outlines how organizations can use open-source and commercially available tools to keep patient information safe on mobile devices.

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Rather than manually entering their username and password every time they utilize a device, Imprivata Mobile Device Access lets clinicians tap their badge to a mobile device, then single sign-on into their applications.

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How aware of potential attacks are medical device makers? Pretty aware. But are they taking big steps to do anything about it? Not so much.

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See the best and worst from Mobile World Congress, plus new Microsoft security features and thoughts on the Apple encryption battle.

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