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The HIPAA Security Rule imposes direct compliance obligations on business associates that handle electronic protected health information on behalf of covered entities, requiring them to implement specific safeguards and workforce training programs.
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A new healthcare cybersecurity report finds that healthcare organizations face mounting vulnerabilities as their attack surfaces expand, with third-party vendors and AI tool adoption compounding readiness gaps against cyber threats.
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A British member of the Scattered Spider hacking group has pleaded guilty to cyberattacks on Transport for London, SSM Health Care, and Sutter Health, with a second British hacker also pleading guilty in connection with the TfL breach. The cases mark a rare instance of criminal accountability for a group linked to a string of high-profile intrusions.
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Vermont has passed two health-focused privacy laws: H.639, which regulates direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies, and S.71, a broader privacy act that adds extra protections for consumer health data. Both measures expand the state's oversight of how sensitive personal health information is collected and used.
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The Atlantic Council has examined how China is navigating the tension between enabling cross-border health data flows and maintaining state control over that data, within the context of its broader AI governance framework.
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Business groups and privacy advocates are clashing over a New York bill that would place new restrictions on how health data is collected and used. The legislation has drawn opposing pressure from industry and civil society as lawmakers weigh its scope and requirements.
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The UK government claims a proposed NHS modernisation bill — which would require GPs and hospitals in England to share patient data through unified single patient records — could reduce A&E visits by 20,000 a year and save £20 million annually. The bill is entering its second parliamentary reading.
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Patients at healthcare providers are encountering consent forms that nominally offer the right to opt out of data sharing with large health networks, but interface design prevents them from actually exercising that choice, effectively coercing consent.
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UK parliamentarians have raised alarms over NHS England granting Palantir and other contractors broad access to identifiable patient records — before pseudonymisation — as part of an AI platform development project. Internal NHS documents reportedly acknowledged the arrangement carries a risk of eroding public trust.
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UK Biobank is a long-running research project holding detailed health and genetic data from around 500,000 British volunteers. Reports have emerged that confidential records from the project appeared for sale on a Chinese website, prompting renewed scrutiny of how that data is stored, shared, and protected.
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