Coalition Files Legal Challenge Against Health Department Changes
A coalition of nineteen states and Washington D.C. has filed a comprehensive lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s controversial restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services…
Groundbreaking Health Data Partnership
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced a collaborative partnership to develop a comprehensive “real-world data platform” focused on autism research. This…
What You Should Know:
– The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it is taking immediate action to implement President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order, “Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American…
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Funding shortfalls and workforce shortage leave small, rural and resource-constrained healthcare providers especially vulnerable to ransomware attacks that disrupt care delivery. That’s a reality that cannot be ignored, according to a new report, prepared…
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A pair of recent announcements from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services show agencies working to help providers and payers reduce their data exchange burdens and enable Medicare enrollees to better manage their…
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The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are working together to build what they’re calling a “real-world data platform” that can be used to research claims information, electronic…
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FDA Announces Major Crackdown on Petroleum-Based Colorants
On April 22, 2025, the FDA and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revealed a comprehensive plan to eliminate petroleum-based synthetic dyes from American food products. This…
Connecticut’s Largest Healthcare System Compromised
Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) has reported a massive data breach affecting approximately 5.6 million individuals to federal regulators. This incident currently stands as the largest healthcare data breach…
Farqad Moshili, Graphiant Engineering Staff
The evolving cyber threat landscape has driven the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to propose significant updates to the HIPAA Security Rule, a first in 12 years, with more stringent…
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Garrett Weber, Field CTO – Enterprise Security at Akamai Technologies
In today’s cybersecurity landscape, the stakes have never been higher especially for organizations in the healthcare industry. Data breaches and ransomware attacks are not just…
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