News 8/29/25
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI will reportedly build its own healthcare applications.
The company has hired former health tech executives from Doximity and the investment community.
Business Insider reports that OpenAI is considering…
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News 10/9/24 – HIStalk
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ASTP says that information blocking and lack of interoperability progress is mostly due to behavior rather than technology and vows to increase oversight that includes these issues:
Publicly accessible API documentation is not available…
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News 3/15/24 – HIStalk
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HHS OCR launches an investigation of the Change Healthcare cyberattack to determine if a PHI breach occurred and if owner UnitedHealth Group is in compliance with HIPAA.
HHS OCR also reminds the company’s…
WebMD Ignite collaborates on data privacy in omnichannel outreach
Healthcare organizations can now prevent protected health information collected by their marketing channels from reaching destinations where organizations do not have a business associate agreement, according to WebMD Ignite and Freshpaint.WHY IT MATTERS
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Healthcare Business Associate Faces Lawsuit Over March Cyberattack
By Jill McKeon
June 22, 2023 – Pennsylvania-based Onix Group, a healthcare business associate that operates commercial real estate and provides management and consulting services, is now facing a lawsuit over a March 2023 data breach.
As…
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Healthcare Business Associate Data Breach Impacts 320K
By Jill McKeon
June 14, 2023 – Onix Group, a Kennett Square, Pennsylvania-based company that operates commercial real estate and provides management and consulting services, suffered a ransomware attack that resulted in a healthcare data breach.
The…
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Data Breach at Debt Collection Agency Impacts Multiple Healthcare Providers
By Jill McKeon
May 22, 2023 – R&B Corporation of Virginia, also known as Credit Control Corporation (CCC), reported a data breach to the Maine Attorney General’s Office that impacted more than 286,000 individuals. CCC is…
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OCR Settles HIPAA Investigation With Revenue Cycle Management Company
By Jill McKeon
May 16, 2023 – The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) settled a HIPAA investigation with MedEvolve, an Arkansas-based business associate that provides revenue cycle management, practice management, and practice analytics software to…
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4.2M Individuals Impacted by Healthcare Data Breach at Independent Living Systems
By Jill McKeon March 16, 2023 – Miami, Florida-based Independent Living Systems (ILS) disclosed a healthcare data breach that impacted more than 4 million individuals, making it the largest reported healthcare data…
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Blackbaud Pays $3M to Settle “Misleading Disclosures” Following Ransomware Attack
By Jill McKeon March 15, 2023 – Blackbaud agreed to pay $3 million to settle charges relating to a 2020 ransomware attack that impacted more than 13,000 customers, the Securities and Exchange…
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