HIPAA compliance

Dr. Doug Fridsma, former ONC chief science officer and current chief medical informatics officer at Health Universe, discusses GPT-5, including HIPAA compliance, FDA oversight and potential risks for patients uploading healthcare data.

Lee Kim, HIMSS senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy, spoke with MobiHealthNews about GPT-5 use in healthcare. She emphasized that patient safety and cybersecurity must remain top priorities for developers.

The updates are a refresh to put more onus around payers/providers to mature their cybersecurity program, says Ferdinand Hamada, managing director of the healthcare, pharma and life sciences sector at MorganFranklin Cyber.

If finalized, the rule aims to improve the safety of patient data at healthcare institutions and addresses a national security topic by protecting data from bad actors who want to disrupt services, says Eric Avigdor, chief product officer of Votiro.

Carolyn Metnick, partner and Healthcare and Privacy & Cybersecurity team member at Sheppard Mullin, recommends that healthcare organizations follow basics such as following HIPAA security rule compliance and doing a security risk analysis.  

Dr. Robert Murry, chief medical officer at NextGen Healthcare, talks about the end of pandemic-era telehealth policy changes, how providers have adopted telemedicine following the pandemic and CMS' commitment to telehealth and privacy.

Chad Peterson, managing director at NetSPI, discusses how care organizations can protect health information by ensuring HIPAA compliance – and what companies can do to reduce vulnerability through reconfiguration.

Developed by providers, payers and other stakeholders, each of the new voice-based services is designed to conveniently bring health knowledge and management into the home.

Fitbit Surge Fitbit's Corporate Wellness arm officially became a HIPAA compliant platform, announced Target as a new client, which will offer Fitbits to its 335,000 US employees, and showed off a new software offering that will facilitate fitness competitions among employees in large, distributed companies.