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March 30, 2012  8:36 AM

The ABCs of federal regulation for mobile devices in health care



Posted by: AnneSteciw
FCC, FDA, FTC, medical device security, mobile device management, NIST, Office for Civil Rights

If it takes a village of federal agencies to raise the HITECH Act, it takes an alphabet soup of national departments to regulate the use of mobile devices in health care. During the...

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July 28, 2010  9:23 AM

FTC, HHS tag-team on Rite Aid for HIPAA violations



Posted by: DonFluckinger
FTC, FTC Act, hhs, HIPAA, HIPAA violations, privacy, Rite aid, security

Rite Aid Corp. agreed to pay $1 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for HIPAA violations stemming from it tossing pill bottles containing patient information into unsecured dumpsters outside its...

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