Business
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed in 1996 to protect sensitive protected health information (PHI) from being disclosed without patient consent. But a study published August 15 in the ...
Aug 15, 2022
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Business
This week, Amazon announced plans to fork out US$3.9 billion (A$5.6 billion) to acquire U.S. health care company One Medical.
Jul 27, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists and health authorities have relied on contact-tracing technologies to help manage the spread of the virus. Yet there's a major flaw in a framework that many of these ...
Jul 21, 2022
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Business
You walk into a shopping centre to buy some groceries. Without your knowledge, an electronic scan of your face is taken by in-store surveillance cameras and stored in an online database. Each time you return to that store, ...
Jul 21, 2022
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Security
A digital attack on a Massachusetts-based health care organization may have compromised the personal information of as many as 2 million people, officials said.
Jun 8, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Algorithms recommend products while we shop online or suggest songs we might like as we listen to music on streaming apps.
May 13, 2022
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Business
The World Health Organization urged Twitter to keep working to root out disinformation following Elon Musk's move to buy the social media platform—stressing when it comes to health, good information is "life-saving".
Apr 26, 2022
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Security
When you use the internet, you leave behind a trail of data, a set of digital footprints. These include your social media activities, web browsing behavior, health information, travel patterns, location maps, information ...
Apr 11, 2022
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Computer Sciences
A heart attack patient, recently discharged from the hospital, is using a smartwatch to help monitor his electrocardiogram signals. The smartwatch may seem secure, but the neural network processing that health information ...
Feb 18, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Meta and TikTok removed advertisements from a mental health care startup after the ads promoted harmful and misleading health information, NBC News reported.
Jan 28, 2022
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