HIPAA

Proposed updates to the HIPAA security rule are specific around the required technical controls and present challenges regarding implementation in a timely manner, says Garrett Weber, Akamai Technologies field CTO for enterprise security.

Funding will support accelerating adoption of communication solutions.

At a HIMSS Digital presentation, former ONC Chief Privacy Officer Joy Pritts and Connected Health Initiative Senior Counsel Brian Scarpelli discussed some common misconceptions about the law.

The MobiHealthNews staff shares its thoughts on how HIPAA, investor funding, digital health commercialization and other focus areas will be changing over the course of the new year.

Amazon Translate, Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Transcribe will now be HIPAA eligible. 

It's just the first test case for the nascent Digital Health Collaborative, an all-volunteer group of healthcare stakeholders.

Hackensack, New Jersey-based Vidyo, a videoconferencing company that works with healthcare stakeholders, has raised a $10 million strategic investment from Kaiser Permanente Ventures and another $5 million from existing investors.

Just last week, the Consumer Electronics Association released guidelines about privacy policies for health and fitness devices.

Health Gorilla, a Sunnyvale, California-based company that just released a clinical communication platform, raised $2.

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.