Dr. Adem Koyuncu and Valerie Mei of Covington & Burling write: On 3 July 2020, the German parliament passed a draft bill (German language) for patient data protection and for more digitalisation in the German healthcare system (Patientendaten-Schutz-Gesetz). The draft bill is currently in the legislative procedure and is expected to enter into force in…
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Why Healthcare is (or isn’t) Adopting Blockchain
Matt Jordan reports: There’s a place for Blockchain in the Healthcare environment, whether individual providers are choosing to adopt it or not. With the current health crisis rocking our country, and even our world, sending patients to ICU or bed-ridden and unable to leave their homes to receive care and diagnoses from their medical professionals….
IBM Security 2020 Cost of Data Breach Report Shows 10% Annual Increase in Healthcare Data Breach Costs
HIPAA Journal reports on the newly released IBM study: The 2020 Cost of Data Breach Report from IBM Security has been released and reveals there has been a slight reduction in global data breach costs, falling to $3.86 million per breach from $3.92 million in 2019 – A reduction of 1.5%. There was considerable variation in data…
ZA: Hackers strike at Life Healthcare, extent of data breach yet to be assessed
I missed this one a few weeks ago, it seems. On June 9, CGTN Africa reported: South Africa’s Life Healthcare said on Tuesday its southern African operation was hit by a cyber attack affecting its admissions systems, business processing systems and email servers, but is yet to determine the extent to which data has been…
How screwed is Indian healthcare data?
Sai Krishna Kothapalli writes: Some months ago, I read an interesting article on Techcrunch titled “A billion medical images are exposed online” about medical imaging storage servers that are not configured securely and are exposed online. This caught my attention, and I wanted to dig deeper, especially in the Indian context. Read more on Medium. This…
Data Breach Lawsuit Filed Against Aveanna Healthcare
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports that Aveanna Healthcare has been sued over a July, 2019 breach that it discovered in August, 2019. The breach was disclosed in February of 2020 as potentially impacting more than 166,000 patients. The incident was one of all-too-many incidents where threat actors gained access to a number of employees’ email accounts,…