Photo by rawpixel.com on Pexels.comEarlier this week, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was ordered to pay a staggering $4,348,000.00 in order to resolve HIPAA violations from data breaches occurring in 2011, 2012, and 2013. The extremity of
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Caps On or Off?: Missouri’s Medical Malpractice Damages Annual Adjustments, A History
From the inception of an initial pleading until the final word of closing arguments, attorneys constantly assess, reassess, and re-reassess the “value” of their case based on each new piece of information that is introduced. While the term “value” can have…
Protecting Pedestrians – Self-Driving Vehicle Safety and Liability
“A robot may not harm a human being or, through inaction,
allow a human being to come to harm.”
Science fiction author Isaac Asimov penned this rule as the first of his Three Laws of Robotics in the 1940s. While…
Hey Alexa, are you HIPAA Compliant?
In a not so distant past, people would look at me with expressions of concern as I attempted to verbally coerce my computer into not crashing as I submitted by term paper minutes before the deadline. While talking to inanimate…
Hacking Your Heart: The Growing Threat of Cyber Attacks on Medical Devices
For the Public Good: Offering our most valuable resource to those in need.
Starting at a young age, we were all taught the importance of volunteering. It is instilled in our minds that volunteering makes you a “good person.” People today volunteer for a variety of different reasons, whether it is due to…
The Unicorn – Not Such a Mythical Sight After All.
I can still vividly recall the tortured expression that appeared on my Starbucks barista’s face as I ordered the Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino on the final day of its availability. At first, I didn’t fully understand why he gave me that…
“iPhone Banned!” — Tomorrow’s headline?
First of all, be still your beating heart. Your favorite (or most hated) smartphone is not going anywhere…not yet anyway. While the war rages on between fans of iOS and Android (or more specifically, Apple and Samsung), the beloved smartphones…
The Snapchat Trap
You can’t set a timer for the new arbitration clause
Self-destructing images and videos, once thought to only be found in the Mission: Impossible universe, can easily be created and dispersed by individuals through the popular social networking app called…
Digital Kidnappers: The Threat of Ransomware
Imagine, if you will, a door. Through that door is your computer, a device you sat in front of for most of the previous evening in order to finish up a project for work. You are scheduled to make a…