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A service adviser at Mehiläinen, a healthcare provider, has been convicted of unlawfully accessing patient records, Yle reports. The woman worked in Turku and was ordered to pay 70 day-fines, totalling 1,680 euros. The Southwest Finland District Court also ordered her to pay several injured parti…

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HIPAA-compliant texting lets you reach patients without exposing patient data. Learn the technology, consent, and workflow rules, plus what your policy won’t cover.

HCAI proposed requiring QHIOs to meet minimum operating thresholds for request‑for‑information and event notification services and establishing a DXF‑recognized specialist track. Committee members warned thresholds could narrow options, raise costs for small providers, and asked for more clarity on privacy, funding, and how population queries would work.

My journey included a notary, a hospital that won’t honor its own policies and employees that gave me wrong information.

The committee reviewed implementation of the New Hampshire patient bill of rights with examples (refuse treatment, visitors, non-discrimination by vaccination status) and discussed proposals including reserving presurgery blood and allowing patients to request blood tested for spike protein; members debated feasibility and testing availability.

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Italy's Garante fined IQVIA 7 million euros over 1 million patients' records it called anonymous, a ruling whose reasoning reaches hashed ad tech identifiers.

Italy's Garante fined IQVIA 7 million euros over 1 million patients' records it called anonymous, a ruling whose reasoning reaches hashed ad tech identifiers.

A Planned Parenthood advocate warned committee members that people traveling to Cincinnati for reproductive care face surveillance risks; council members pressed CPD on whether license-plate or city camera data could be used by out-of-state agencies and received assurances CPD would not provide tracking for abortion enforcement absent legal process.

Epic Systems, the largest medical-records vendor in the United States, used an artificial-intelligence tool from Anthropic to identify security weaknesses that could have allowed hackers to gain undetected access to confidential patient information. The company’s software is used by thousands of hospitals and medical practices, and Epic maintains records involving about 325 million patients in the United States and other countries. Epic officials said the company deployed Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI agent to stress-test its systems and search for ways attackers could use open-source AI agents to unlock protected health records. The vulnerabilities were considered serious enough that Epic slowed development of some product lines while engineers focused on addressing the problems. Epic Chief Executive Judy Faulkner disclosed the security concerns and a six-week remediation plan at an industry conference. She described the effort as urgent but warned that addressing current weaknesses could become part of a continuing cycle as attackers develop new methods to exploit software. The case highlights both the potential benefits and risks of using AI in cybersecurity. AI tools can examine complex software more quickly and identify flaws that human teams might overlook. At the same time, the discovery shows how widely used medical systems could expose sensitive data if vulnerabilities remain unpatched. The article does not report that patient records were accessed or stolen; it describes weaknesses found during security testing and the company’s efforts to fix them. Epic’s response reflects the heightened security demands facing organizations that store large volumes of health information.

Unauthorized access to a file containing personal health information raises concerns. Read about Health PEI's response to the breach.