Category Archives: biometrics

Business Trend. Health care and Tech. By 2018, 70% of health care will be tech driven. 7 Upcoming trends to be regulated

Apple is poised to enter health care in these 7 ways:

  • clinical trial partnership with Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital
  • precision medicine initiative with Scripps Translational Science Institute
  • partnered with IBM, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic on cognitive computing platform called Watson Health Cloud
    • offering  tailored data analytics services to clinicians
  • bought a health care tech firm to advance interoperability by aggregating health data into a single digital patient…

5 Cities. Transparency Trendsetters. Police Surveillance Technology.

Which 5 cities are first out of the gate to consider ordiannces to improve transparency in police surveillance?

  • New York City
  • Washington DC
  • Seattle
  • Milwaukee
  • Richmond

What does the coaltion of supporters look like?

  • privacy groups
  • civil libertians
  • civil rights groups
  • minority & ethnic groups

What technology is likely to be dislcosed?

Western State Moving Biometric and Geolocating Data Security Bill. Read the Legislation.

The State: California

The Legislation: Assembly Bill 83

What does AB 83 require?

  • expand data security requirements for businesses that retain biometric & geolocating data
  • protect data collected by mobile apps or fitness devices
  • protects data collected in photo taggins such as social media and photo storage services for photo tagging purposes.
  • requires businesses to use a “reasonably prudent” standard

How does AB 83 accomplish its goals? By expanding the definitions of…

Lege TREND. Health Care Data Breach Law Moving in West. 5 Keys for your Healthcare Clients. Give them the bill before it comes to Texas.

Which state is considering new health care data breach laws? California

What health companies are the targets of new data security laws? wearable devices and consumer-facing apps  that track health data like steps taken, heart rate, etc…

Read the bill: California Assembly Bill 2688

The bill’s highlights:

  • require customers’ permission—via an “opt-in” request
  • Without an opt-in,  personally identifiable information cannot be shared with advertisers, health plans, data…

INTERIM. Health Care Data Security Bill. 4 Takeaways.

What 4 Ways does the Health & Human Services Data Protection Act protect health care data?

  • Creates the  Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) within HHS
  • Creates a data protection arrangement between the new CISO, the HHS General Counsel, & the HHS CIO
  • Keeps information technology & information security separate to ensure the highest level of security
  • Incentivizes better security to protect health care data

Health IT Security | Healthcare Cybersecurity Bill Introduced…

Health Care Data Protection Changes from the Feds Will Filter to States

  • Improving Health Information Technology Act (S. 2511)
    • electronic health records interoperability
    • establishing a medical device postmarket surveillance system
    • loyal subscribers will recall the hacking of medical devices
  • Ranking Member Patty Murray’s amendment to S.1878
    • medical device data safety and effectiveness
    • how do we keep consumers aware of medical device data security issues?

Healthcare IT | How Recent Senate HELP Bills Affect Healthcare Data Security

Federal Government Biometric Data Breach. 5.6 Million Fingerprints Revealed

The federal government data breach not only compromised personal data of 21.5 Million former and current federal employees but also compromised 5.6 Million finger prints. 

That’s 4.5 million more than initially reported. 

Rueters | Deluth News Tribune | Hackers steal 5.6 million fingerprint records in government data breach

The Consumerist: Federal Data Breach Included 5.6M Compromised Fingerprints, Five Times The Original Estimate