Cybersecurity and Privacy

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.

Also, Cabrini Technology is adding medical device cybersecurity to its service offerings.

According to Deloitte's survey, 49% of respondents said they'd attended a virtual medical appointment as a patient in the past year, while 26% said they'd been to a virtual visit where another person was the patient.

A report by the U.K.-based Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps found 84% of 25 apps shared data outside of the developer's system.