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Renew EU Safe Harbor annually or face FTC penalties

January 23, 2014
By Ken Stineman
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Twelve companies agreed this week to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that they falsely claimed they were abiding by the Safe Harbor privacy framework, but had allowed their annual self-certification to lapse. The FTC has made enforcement of the US-EU and US-Swiss Safe Harbor a priority following recent European Commission’s critisicm that enforcement was…

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Dermatology practice settles HIPAA violations for $150k

January 5, 2014
By Ken Stineman
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Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on December 27th that Adult & Pediatric Dermatology, P.C., of Concord, Mass., (APDerm) agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules with the Department of Health and Human Services, with a $150,000 payment. http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/enforcement/examples/apderm-agreement.html What…

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Auto Scaling comes to the AWS Management Console

December 18, 2013
By Ken Stineman
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On December 10th, Amazon announced that the Auto Scaling feature is now easily configurable in the AWS Management Console. Amazon AWS Auto Scaling enables you to automatically launch or terminate Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances based on user-defined policies, health status checks, and schedules. You can now create Auto Scaling Groups through the…

Illumina working to expand BaseSpace application ecosystem

December 9, 2013
By Ken Stineman
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Double-Helix spent the day in San Francisco at the Basespace Developers meeting learning about their new initiative for “Native” Basespace applications. http://storify.com/UYG13/basespace-developer-meeting-west-coast-edition BaseSpace is Illumina’s cloud environment for the storage and analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. BaseSpace is hosted in Amazon AWS and the system is used by hundreds MiSeq NGS hardware users. In…

23andMe Suspends Health Related Reporting

December 7, 2013
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As of this week, Mountain View based 23andMe will no longer offer health-related results and reporting from its genetic tests. FDA Warning Letter In response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s warning letter, 23andme announced on Thursday, December 5th: “At this time, we have suspended our health-related genetic tests to comply with the U.S.…

Tagged: DTC, FDA, Genetic Testing, SNP

Cybersecurity Challenges for Medical Devices

December 5, 2013
By Ken Stineman
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Regulatory Guidance The FDA recently published guidance recommending that device manufacturers develop security controls in the design of their products to limit malfunctions resulting from computer viruses and attacks, and maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the device information. At the same time, the latest HIPAA regulations also require risk assessments and the implementation…

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Missed Opportunities that can cost you that dream job

December 4, 2013
By Molly Ryan
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Digital content specialist Erin Palmer suggests 7 career search and interviewing tips for the job hunter. It’s critical for the job hunter to do research about themselves and their prospective employer before interviewing for that dream job. Erin suggests common missteps including not googling yourself, not doing enough research about the company, being late for…

InVitae defends right to provide BRCA genetic testing

November 26, 2013
By Ken Stineman
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InVitae Corporation announced on November 26th that it plans to defend its right to provide naturally occurring genetic diagnostic testing and services including BRCA. https://www.invitae.com/en/press/invitae-responds-myriad-genetics-lawsuit/ In a complaint filed in Utah federal court, Myriad claims that InVitae is infringing on 11 patents for products that assess a patient’s risk for breast and other cancers. University…

FDA Clears First NGS System for Clinical Use

November 26, 2013
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The FDA granted premarket clearance for the Illumina MiSeqDx high-throughput, next generation gene sequencing instrument. http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm375742.htm This is the first benchmark sequencer designed and validated for the clinical market. The instrument is also CE marked for use internationally. They were able to successfully “benchmark” the performance of the system against a publicly available quality scored…

FDA sends warning letter to 23andMe

November 26, 2013
By Ken Stineman
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On November 22, 2013 the FDA sent a warning letter to 23andMe: http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2013/ucm376296.htm The FDA listed “particularly concerning” intended uses including the assessment of BRCA-related genetic risk and response to drugs such as warfarin. The FDA indicated that 23andMe submitted 510(k) applications in 2012 for several of these conditions but had since failed to address…

NIST Releases preliminary Cybersecurity Framework

November 12, 2013
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The National Institute for Standards and Technology released its preliminary cybersecurity framework to provide guidance to “critical infrastructure owners” Critical infrastructure includes those groups that maintain information relating to health and other areas. The framework describes five Framework Core Functions: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover It also categorizes maturity and adoption into four implementation…

Circulating fetal DNA Patent Invalidated

November 11, 2013
By Ken Stineman
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The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California sided with Ariosa and invalidated multiple claims in Sequenom’s patent for the detection of fetal cell-free (cffDNA) in the blood-stream of pregnant women. Ariosa Diagnostics had asked the court to declare that its Harmony(tm) non-invasive prenatal test was not infringing on patent no.

FDA reaffirms commitment to Personalized Medicine

November 11, 2013
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Paving the way for Personalized Medicine On October 31st 2013, FDA published a new report titled: Paving the Way for Personalized Medicine – FDA’s Role in a New Era of Medical Product Development http://www.fda.gov/downloads/ScienceResearch/SpecialTopics/PersonalizedMedicine/UCM372421.pdf The FDA report describes their perspectives on Personalized Medicine, Pharmacogenomics, Personalized Medical Devices, Targeted Therapy, Companion Diagnostics, and Whole Genome Sequencing.…

FDA Issues Mobile Medical Application Final Guidance

September 24, 2013
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FDA released a Final Guidance today on Mobile Medical Applications. Physicians and consumers are increasingly using mobile devices for healthcare purposes. The agency has indicated that it will have a tailored approach and “focus on the minority of apps that pose the higher risk to patients and and will exercise discretion for the majority that pose…

Copier Costs Health Plan $1,215,780

August 16, 2013
By Ken Stineman
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In April 2010, Affinity Health Plan filed a Breach Report with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) as required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health, HITECH Act. Affinity reported that a photocopier they had previously leased was purchased by the CBS Evening News as part of an investigatory report and…

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