/healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Healthcare Authority Digital Health & Technology Copyright 2025 Â鶹´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:22:37 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2350574?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2350574 A California federal judge allowed a proposed class action accusing Google of illicitly scooping up users' personal data from healthcare providers' websites to continue Friday, but only for certain claims based on communications made before the company started instructing healthcare provider clients not to send it their health information. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:27:32 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2349368?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2349368 The U.S. Supreme Court declined Friday to review a decision that telemedicine patents asserted against the U.S. government are invalid for claiming only abstract ideas, in the court's latest refusal to reconsider the standard for determining if inventions are eligible for patents. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:30:07 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2350507?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2350507 A Pennsylvania federal judge declined to certify a class of as many as 25,00 healthcare providers who say they received unsolicited fax advertisements, saying there was no way to determine which plaintiffs received the ads via traditional, stand-alone fax machines and which received them through online fax services. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:00:12 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2338709?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2338709 For the healthcare industry, the upward trend in styles of cyberattacks, costs, and entities targeted highlights the critical importance of proactive planning to help withstand the operational, legal and reputational turmoil that can follow a data breach, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:56:04 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2348192?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2348192 The Rosen Â鶹´«Ã½ Firm PA and Pomerantz LLP will serve as co-lead counsel for shareholders accusing Seattle-based Sana Biotechnology Inc. of misleading investors about its ability to develop certain genetic therapy treatments. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:30:56 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2347983?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2347983 An unusual new law in Utah zeroes in on the growing world of mental health chatbots, establishing privacy and advertising guardrails for the kind of intimate conversations a patient might share with a virtual therapist. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:00:31 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2345428?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2345428 A rebound in client work sent the nation’s largest law firms into growth mode last year, driving a wave of hiring, mergers and strategic moves that reshaped the top tier of the Â鶹´«Ã½360 400. Here's a preview of the 100 firms with the largest U.S. attorney headcounts. Fri, 30 May 2025 18:30:08 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2345470?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2345470 Recent legislative developments concerning the growing field of menopause care are creating opportunities for increased investment and innovation in the space as they increase access to education and coverage, say attorneys at Kirkland. Thu, 29 May 2025 19:25:45 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2345472?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2345472 The founder and former CEO of Masimo Corp. has alleged six of the medical technology company's directors orchestrated his wrongful termination and denied him the compensation he is now owed, according to a suit for hundreds of millions of dollars filed against the executives in California state court. Tue, 27 May 2025 16:32:27 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2343595?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2343595 A year after Washington’s landmark health privacy law took effect, attorneys are bracing for the first judicial interpretation defining the law's reach and closely watching a proposed class action. Copycat legislation, meanwhile, is emerging in other states. Fri, 23 May 2025 20:27:14 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2344463?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2344463 A California federal judge ruled Thursday that Flo Health Inc. and Meta cannot escape all the claims in a class action brought by users of a menstrual cycle app who allege their privacy was violated, denying parts of both companies' summary judgment bids.  Fri, 23 May 2025 19:32:13 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2344540?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2344540 A Washington state judge has given final approval to an $11.5 million class action settlement to end litigation against Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center over a 2023 data breach that exposed patient information, with the judge awarding $3.8 million in attorney fees in a deal class counsel values at more than $50 million. Thu, 22 May 2025 19:26:15 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2343611?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2343611 Two California clinics that provide stem cell treatments are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit panel's finding that their treatments are "drugs" subject to Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act regulations. Thu, 22 May 2025 18:08:44 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2343852?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2343852 Recent artificial intelligence developments in Canada's health industry are creating ripple effects for global investors, cross-border innovators and legal practitioners, and may create opportunities for U.S. companies rethinking their international strategies, says Atoussa Mahmoudpour at AMR Â鶹´«Ã½. Tue, 20 May 2025 22:53:43 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2342406?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2342406 A California federal judge has granted class status to users of the menstrual cycle tracking app developed by Flo Health Inc. in a suit accusing the company of unlawfully sharing their personal health information with Google and Meta, finding that the defendants' opposition to this move lacked clarity and support. Tue, 20 May 2025 21:00:56 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2342858?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2342858 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and several constituent agencies are accused of violating the Administrative Procedure Act by illegally purging websites containing critical public health information related to trans and HIV care, vaccines and the prevention of outbreaks of communicable diseases, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Washington federal court. Tue, 20 May 2025 18:32:18 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2342944?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2342944 Investors in biotech company Intellia Therapeutics Inc. stock opened a derivative suit in Delaware's Court of Chancery on Tuesday seeking recovery of allegedly excessive compensation paid to non-employee directors for multiple years without an approval vote by stockholders. Tue, 20 May 2025 17:27:20 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2342942?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2342942 A former operations and regional sales manager for a mobile medical diagnostic company has agreed to plead guilty to taking part in a $70.6 million conspiracy to pay kickbacks to doctors who ordered unnecessary brain scans, Massachusetts federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. Tue, 20 May 2025 16:08:16 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2342647?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2342647 Information technology workers who accused New York University's academic medical center of improperly classifying them as exempt from earning overtime wages can proceed as a collective, a federal judge ruled, finding they showed they were all subject to the same pay policies and practices. Tue, 20 May 2025 14:46:00 +0000 /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2342534?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/digital-health-technology/articles/2342534 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's plan to expand surprise inspections of overseas drug manufacturing plants is a legitimate enforcement threat that should be taken seriously, even as the agency adjusts to a future with a smaller workforce.