Manatt Health July 9, 2020
Robert D. Belfort, William S. Bernstein, Alexander Dworkowitz, Brenda Pawlak, Po Yi

As this decade begins, Americans are increasingly apprehensive about the privacy of their personal information. A recent survey found that approximately four out of five Americans are concerned about how their data is used, think the risks of companies’ collection of their data outweigh the benefits and believe they have little control of their data.1

Nowhere is this issue more important than in regard to health data, a type of information that can contain extremely personal details about an individual. Enacted in 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the primary law that protects health data in the United States. But HIPAA was adopted in a world where most health data was held either by or on...

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