Cybersecurity and Privacy

According to a review of studies in the Lancet Digital Health, "a real risk of reidentification exists" when sharing data from wearable devices.

With the rise of digital health solutions, the healthcare industry has an opportunity to reimagine care delivery – and the Digital Medicine Society’s Applied Digital Health Ethics course is ready to prepare healthcare professionals for this new future.

In letters to Monument, Workit Health and Cerebral, the senators expressed concern about reports that the companies are sharing health data with third parties like Google and Facebook.

The health IT company is reinforcing its security credentials amid the spate of cyberattacks against the healthcare industry.

GoodRx agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine under the proposed order, but it admitted no wrongdoing.

The data breach occurred when the company requested users acknowledge they had received a notice about a recall of the Omnipod DASH Insulin Management System.

Food delivery company ModifyHealth scooped up $10 million, and Censinet, developer of healthcare cybersecurity software, raised $9 million.

According to an analysis published in JAMA Network Open, many mental health apps provided similar offerings, but frequently lacked accessibility features.

The Mobile Health Apps tool aims to help developers determine which federal laws apply and which agencies oversee different aspects of mobile health technology.

In a letter to CEO Tim Cook, ten state attorneys general called on the tech giant to require stricter privacy standards for third-party apps hosted on the App Store.