The FDA is informing patients and health care providers that pulse oximeters have limitations and a risk of inaccuracy that must be considered.

The Office for Civil Rights has identified that hackers have heavily targeted the healthcare industry in 2020 and 2021, hoping to get unauthorized access to sensitive electronic protected health information (ePHI). Between 2019 and 2020, the amount of unprotected ePHI breaches reported to the US Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that affected 500 or more people due to hacking or IT problems climbed by 45 %! In addition, hacking or IT events accounted for 66% of all breaches impacting 500 or more people reported to OCR in 2020.

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Our health and lifestyle data is everywhere.  This article outlines four steps that anyone can take to create a more complete, layered defense to protect personal information from attackers.