DATA PRIVACY
Leveraging Healthcare Data to Support Patient Engagement
Patient disengagement leads to serious negative consequences including hospitalization and preventable deaths. It is imperative that healthcare providers take innovative steps to improve patient engagement and consequent health outcomes. As in many other fields, big...
Implementing Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) for Compliance
“In early March, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released two sets of rules on information blocking. They made two dramatic changes: patients would be able to more...
GDPR and CCPA Compliance – A Cheat Sheet for Data Privacy
Both the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) aim to protect consumers’ privacy rights. Because both laws attempt to fundamentally change business practice to establish and protect new data privacy rights for...
CCPA Compliance, Data Privacy, and Gaining a Competitive Advantage
As of January 1, 2020, CCPA – the California Consumer Privacy Act – is here. Of course, CCPA compliance requires that companies that do business in California or with California residents, and meet other requirements, must meet certain data privacy requirements to...
5G, IoT, and Data Privacy in 2020
As we begin 2020, the 5G rollout is well underway. Carriers are deploying 5G, or the fifth generation of mobile infrastructure, with significantly higher speeds and capabilities to enable the spread of IoT, which promises connectivity for billions of devices for...
Concrete Steps for Data Privacy Readiness on the Eve of CCPA
GDPR and CCPA Demonstrate that the trend towards greater data privacy protection is inevitable. These GDPR facts from 2018 outline the reality of the adoption of data privacy in the market: The European Parliament adopted the GDPR in April 2016, and went into effect...
In an Era of the Data Breach, Data Security is Paramount
Earlier this year, a hacker broke into a Capital One server, gaining access to 100 million Capital One customer accounts and credit card applications. The personal information that the hacker obtained included information from credit card applications and accounts:...
