Lexology January 23, 2020
Robinson & Cole LLP

Some app developers know more about our health than our doctors do. Take, for instance, FitBit, which is attached to our wrist and measuring in real time our temperature, our heart rate, our steps and whether we have had enough exercise for our age in a day.

Some people sleep with their phones on their pillows so they can monitor their sleep habits. Some people have apps, such as Bump, to determine when they are the most fertile and should do the thing that you still have to do to get pregnant. Some apps know when you are pregnant before your body even knows. 23andMe knows your entire DNA genome, and your family’s as well. None of this highly sensitive...

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Topics: Apps, Cybersecurity, Digital Health, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Patient / Consumer, Privacy / Security, Provider, Technology, Wearables
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