Healthcare cybersecurity insights on Privacy
The FTC Health Breach Notification Rule extends data security and breach reporting requirements beyond HIPAA-covered entities to digital health startups, fitness apps, and consumer wearables. Healthcare technology leaders must understand this overlapping regulatory landscape to avoid costly compliance gaps.
California's CMIA and Washington's My Health MY Data Act represent a seismic shift in health privacy regulation. Health system leaders must understand their obligations under these laws to avoid compliance gaps and reputational damage.
The Supreme Court's Dobbs decision has fundamentally altered the legal landscape for reproductive health data, creating unprecedented privacy risks for healthcare organizations. This post provides actionable mitigation strategies grounded in HIPAA, HITRUST, and NIST frameworks to help CISOs and compliance officers protect sensitive patient information in an increasingly hostile regulatory environment.
Recent modernization of 42 CFR Part 2 has fundamentally reshaped how behavioral health organizations must safeguard patient records. Learn how to align legacy compliance infrastructure with evolving federal privacy requirements and close dangerous gaps between HIPAA and substance use disorder protections.
De-identification and anonymization are not interchangeable terms in HIPAA compliance. Understanding the regulatory distinction between Expert Determination and Safe Harbor methods is critical for CISOs managing secondary uses of health data.
Privacy by Design (PbD) is no longer optional in healthcare—it's a regulatory and operational imperative. This post explores how to embed ISO 29101 principles into your application development lifecycle to achieve HIPAA compliance, reduce breach risk, and build clinician trust.
The FTC Health Breach Notification Rule extends breach reporting requirements beyond HIPAA-covered entities to digital health vendors. Healthcare CISOs must understand jurisdictional applicability, consumer notification timelines, and enforcement risks in this expanding regulatory landscape.
State-level health privacy laws are creating a complex compliance landscape for health systems. Learn how California's CMIA and Washington's My Health MY Data Act reshape data governance, consent frameworks, and operational security requirements beyond federal HIPAA standards.
The modernization of 42 CFR Part 2 creates both compliance complexity and strategic opportunity for health systems managing substance use disorder treatment records. This post provides actionable frameworks for aligning these dual regulatory regimes and strengthening mental health data protections.