Compliance & Legal
The hospital "failed to handle its patients’ health information with care," said Attorney General Letitia James. It has pledged to update its policies on third-party tools, ensure deletion of PHI gathered by those tools and boost its privacy safeguards.
The DOJ announced that the FBI also has decryptor keys for Blackcat ransomware victims and will "prioritize disruptions" as it works to "dismantle the ecosystem fueling cybercrime."
AI & ML Intelligence
Leaders at ONC's annual meeting were asked whether they're confident that federal agencies and the private sector can work together to foster innovation while protecting against bias and safety risks. Here's what they had to say.
By creating new definitions and revising others, the proposed rule targets health and wellness technology companies operating outside of HIPAA and qualitatively expands the scope of what constitutes a PHR.
The American Medical Association's principles on the development and deployment of AI highlight members' concerns and consider who should be held liable, says Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, president of AMA, speaking from the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum.
Despite broad concern by health IT developers and owners, some deadlines have been pushed out in HTI-1, the new federal rule governing certification, AI transparency and other standards, while those for decision support algorithms have not.
As a result of an investigation into overdue financial reports and threats of Nasdaq delisting, Veradigm CEO Richard Poulton and CFO Leah Jones resigned at the request of the company's board on Friday. The IT vendor also announced a billing AI tool.
This agency's first data breach settlement under HIPAA for a phishing attack involved the alleged failure to conduct a risk analysis to identify potential ePHI threats or vulnerabilities across the Lafourche Medical Group network.
"The AHA cannot support proposals for mandatory cybersecurity requirements being levied on hospitals as if they were at fault for the success of hackers in perpetrating a crime," says Rick Pollack, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association.
AI can improve health equity, according to Dr. Michael Howell, chief clinical officer at Google, who will discuss the evolution of the company's medically tuned LLM and make regulatory recommendations for the use of AI in healthcare.