The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights announced it has reached a $65,000 settlement with West Georgia Ambulance over alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Security Rule. The agency launched an investigation after a breach report was filed over the loss of an unencrypted laptop that contained the protected health information of 500 patients. Meanwhile, Bloomberg Law takes a look at how privacy laws and trends may impact health care organizations in 2020, NextGov reports on privacy concerns surrounding electronic pills with built-in sensors, and Facebook discussed the privacy safeguard within its new preventive health tool in a piece for Scientific American.
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