Health IT Analytics March 30, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased health data collection efforts, resulting in the need for a new regulatory framework that supports patient privacy and equity.
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders have developed and deployed health data collection technologies to track virus exposure, monitor outbreaks, and aggregate hospital data.
As communities begin to navigate vaccine rollouts, public health officials and healthcare leaders will have to determine how to manage monitoring systems created in response to the virus, what processes are required in order to immunize populations, and what new norms these technologies have generated.
A critical part of these conversations is the impact these technologies could have on patient privacy and health equity. With the country transitioning from crisis...