Inside Digital Health August 30, 2019
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was established before the turn of the millennium to provide data privacy and security provisions to safeguard medical information. While HIPAA first came to be in 1996, the law has become much more prominent over the last few years due to the rise of digitization in healthcare.
HIPAA was created before the industry could comprehend the novel technologies and streams of data that those tools would give access to.
With a plethora of ways for patients to generate data, including smartwatches and activity trackers, the role of HIPAA has become even more important and talked about in the industry.
“The framework addresses a limited set of data being touched by a limited...
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