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Expanding Protections: Tracking New Biometric Privacy Laws Across the U.S.

Biometric privacy laws emerge in fourteen states. Understand the implications for businesses and the key differences in enforcement and the heightened risk of non-compliance for companies dealing with biometric data.

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A Step in the Right Direction – U.S. Executive Order on AI

President Biden’s Executive Order calls for stringent AI safety standards, privacy protection, responsible AI deployment in government, equity in AI applications, and international collaboration on AI safety and standards.

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The DOJ’s Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative

The most recent Health IT vendor to settle with the government is a direct result of the DOJ’s new Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative.

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FDA Releases Final Guidance on Clinical Decision Support Software as a Medical Device

Quandary Peak’s review of FDA’s final guidance leads us to believe we could see meaningful expansion of the amount of CDSS qualifying as a medical device, which could subject many current and future CDS software applications to FDA oversight.

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How Project US@ Fits into the U.S.’s Developing Health IT Infrastructure

A standard approach for representing patient addresses across all health IT systems was needed to improve patient matching using accurate address information. Enter Project US@, the “Unified Specification for Address in Health Care.”

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Understanding Medical Device Cybersecurity & the FDA’s Role

As medical devices evolve to better treat and monitor patient health, cybersecurity remains a top priority. As per FDA guidance, “medical device security is a shared responsibility…”

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Inside T-Mobile’s Massive Security Failure

Around the middle of August, a security research firm named Unit221B reached out to T-Mobile with some really, really bad news.