HealthLeaders Media November 1, 2022
The Federal Trade Commission is weighing options to respond to health data winding up in the wrong hands.
Companies receiving healthcare data through avenues like mHealth applications on mobile devices should be regulated further, according to a trade association of healthcare CIOs.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has submitted comments in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s August 11 advance notice of proposed rulemaking. A 60-day public comment period followed the notice’s publication in the Federal Register.
“A recent estimate by IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science pegged the number of health-related apps at 350,000,” Russell P. Branzell, president and CEO of CHIME, said in the organization’s letter to the FTC. “Given the explosion in mobile apps...
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