UK-based digital health firm Forward Clinical Ltd has been rated ‘requires improvement’ by England’s health and care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
The company provides services through its Juno app, which allows parents to access advice on maternity and children’s health issues from NHS paediatricians and midwives.
A CQC inspection, which took place over two days in July and...
Amazon is adding to its Halo fitness-tracking line with a new wearable, the Halo View, plus workout classes to rival Apple Fitness+ and meal planning.
The Halo View allows wearers to track health metrics like activity, sleep quality and blood oxygen levels. It provides live workout tracking as well as movement reminders and text messages. Unlike its original Halo wearable launched last year, the...
Last week, a database that was not password protected exposed more than 61 million records containing data from fitness trackers and wearables, including Apple HealthKit and Fitbit. On today's HIMSSCast a team of HIMSS Media editors – host Jonah Comstock, MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett, MobiHealthNews Senior Editor Emily Olsen, and Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard –...
With data breaches on the rise, the FTC is looking to make health apps more accountable for telling patients when their data has been exposed.
The FTC released a new statement specifying that all health apps that capture sensitive patient information notify users, the commission itself and in some cases the media when a security breach has compromised identifiable health data. If the company...
A database that was not password protected exposed more than 61 million records containing data from fitness trackers and wearables, according to a breach report by WebsitePlanet and security researcher Jeremiah Fowler.
Fowler and WebsitePlanet’s research team found many of the exposed records contained information like first and last name, display name, birthdate, weight, height, gender and...
Blockchain security healthcare specialist ConsenSys Health announced it has acquired FHIRBlocks, a specialist in secure patient data-sharing tools. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The deal includes the transfer of FHIRBlocks’ technological and other IP, as well as key executives and staff, business activities and relationships, to ConsenSys Health.
The acquisition will result in the...
As consumer health apps continue to increase in popularity, so do experts’ fears over user privacy.
A new study published in the BMJ that analyzed more than 20,000 medical, health and fitness apps suggests that these apps have "serious problems" related to privacy and data collection.
"Our results show that the collection of personal user information is a pervasive practice in mHealth apps, and...
Australian software company MedicalDirector has introduced its latest cybersecurity solution for healthcare systems.
WHAT IT DOES
According to a press release, the MedicalDirector Shield has six key components to protect a healthcare practice's IT systems and data.
It provides an initial security assessment to spot a system's vulnerabilities to online hacks; a plug-in intrusion detection...
The EU’s new regulation on medical devices finally came into full application today, following a year’s delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the European Commission, the Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) seeks to ensure a high level of public health and patient safety taking into account scientific progress.
The regulation entered into force in May 2017, replacing the Medical Devices...
In today’s world, data is power. Healthcare providers have massive amounts of rich health data at their fingertips. Yet historically, third-party vendors to healthcare providers often have derived financial benefits from secondary use of this data through aggregating and brokering de-identified data to downstream customers.
That is beginning to change as healthcare providers are taking back...
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